Utsalady Elementary

Utsalady Elementary is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in CAMANO ISLAND, Washington, overseen by Stanwood-Camano School District, educateing 391 students in grades K through 5.

Stanwood-Camano School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,880 students; Utsalady Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Utsalady Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Utsalady Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Utsalady Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Island County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, Utsalady Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 58.4%; Utsalady Elementary posts 45.9%, -12.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Island County put median household earnings sit near $90,551, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Island County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,561 students), Utsalady Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Stanwood Elementary School, roughly 4.4 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Utsalady Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

Utsalady Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Utsalady Elementary's enrollment has grew 24% since 2018, when it stood at 315 (now 391). White enrollment moved from 88% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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