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Enrollment
473
Elementary
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530657002951
Virgie Robinson Elementary
125 S. Wehe Ave, Pasco, WA 99301 · (509) 543-6086 · Franklin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL473 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of Washington public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
423 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
28.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +18.7pp since 2014
Math
20.7%
WA avg 51.2% . +5.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 19 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.9% | 20.7% |
| 2023-24 | 23.9% | 17.6% |
| 2022-23 | 15.9% | 13.7% |
| 2021-22 | 16.7% | 11.4% |
| 2018-19 | 30.3% | 28.9% |
| 2017-18 | 17.2% | 19.0% |
| 2016-17 | 18.3% | 19.2% |
| 2015-16 | 16.5% | 16.4% |
| 2014-15 | 10.3% | 15.0% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Virgie Robinson Elementary
Virgie Robinson Elementary's state test result (21.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgie Robinson Elementary this school | 473 | 89.4% | 21.9% |
| Emerson Elementary PASCO | 447 | 88.8% | 12.8% |
| Robert Frost Elementary PASCO | 459 | 89.1% | 17.0% |
| Sun Valley Elementary School Sunnyside | 474 | 87.8% | N/A |
| Saddle Mountain Elementary Mattawa | 470 | 91.7% | 21.0% |
| Smith Elementary School Grandview | 477 | 86.4% | 28.4% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Virgie Robinson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.9% | #891 of 936 | #13 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #1,032 of 1,103 ▲ 11 | #13 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #961 of 1,102 ▲ 73 | #12 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.7pp | #71 of 928 | #2 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 473 | #370 of 1,268 | #10 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #745 of 1,085 | #18 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.0% | #1,075 of 1,088 | #18 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.4% | #30 of 1,169 | #5 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.1% | #36 of 778 | #3 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
473
-85 (-15%) vs 2020
-37% since 2010-11, when it was 752
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 16.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 473 | 28.4 | 16.7:1 | 89% (423) |
| 2023-24 | 495 | 31.4 | 15.8:1 | 96% (473) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 26.9 | 18.6:1 | 95% (473) |
| 2020-21 | 558 | 33 | 16.9:1 | 82% (458) |
| 2017-18 | 777 | 50.6 | 15.3:1 | 93% (725) |
| 2015-16 | 800 | 43 | 18.6:1 | 98% (782) |
| 2010-11 | 752 | 34 | 22.1:1 | 96% (720) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Virgie Robinson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (777 to 473); teachers down 44% (50.6 to 28.4).
About Virgie Robinson Elementary
Virgie Robinson Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school found in Pasco, Washington. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 473 students. That is 24% bigger than the average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
Virgie Robinson Elementary sits within Pasco School District, which has 28 schools and 18,913 students.
Hispanic students account for 94% of the school's enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 3% Asian. Among all residents of Franklin County, the Hispanic share is about 55%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 11%.
The school's 28.4 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.7:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 17.3:1. At Virgie Robinson Elementary, 89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Franklin County average 70%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Virgie Robinson Elementary outscored 24%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Virgie Robinson Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 21.9% is 1.7 points above the 20.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The county, Franklin County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $86,714 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Franklin County has 43 public schools with about 21,403 students, including Virgie Robinson Elementary.
Virgie Robinson Elementary is about 0.5 miles from Whittier Elementary, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 5 nearby schools with scores, Virgie Robinson Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Virgie Robinson Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 558 (2020-21) to 473 (2024-25).
The allk12 page for Virgie Robinson Elementary lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,902
Census ACS
Median income
$86,714
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
21,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pasco School District
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Other schools in Pasco
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Nearby schools
- Whittier Elementary0.5 mi · 378
- Marie Curie STEM Elementary0.6 mi · 376
- Ellen Ochoa Middle School0.8 mi · 831
- Pasco Early Learning Center1.3 mi · 318
- Longfellow Elementary1.3 mi · 312
- Pasco Early Childhood1.4 mi · 60
Frequently asked questions
About Virgie Robinson ElementaryHow large is Virgie Robinson Elementary?
Virgie Robinson Elementary enrolls approximately 473 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Virgie Robinson Elementary serve?
Virgie Robinson Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Virgie Robinson Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Virgie Robinson Elementary is approximately 16.7:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Virgie Robinson Elementary?
Virgie Robinson Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 94% Hispanic, 0% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Virgie Robinson Elementary in?
Virgie Robinson Elementary is part of Pasco School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.