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What's the most underrated thing about Woodland Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
606
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUYALLUP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530696001044
Woodland Elementary
7707 112th St E, Puyallup, WA 98373 · (253) 841-8747 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL606 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 77% of Washington public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-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
17.7:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
302 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 84 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 14% smaller than its 6th grade class (84).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
55.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.7pp since 2014
Math
53.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +0.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.6% | 53.1% |
| 2023-24 | 60.2% | 63.3% |
| 2022-23 | 60.3% | 60.6% |
| 2021-22 | 63.1% | 62.9% |
| 2018-19 | 63.6% | 61.2% |
| 2017-18 | 68.2% | 60.7% |
| 2016-17 | 68.5% | 71.0% |
| 2015-16 | 65.3% | 64.6% |
| 2014-15 | 57.3% | 52.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
59.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 13 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Woodland Elementary
Woodland Elementary's state test result (59.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Elementary this school | 606 | 49.8% | 59.9% |
| Warren Hunt Elem Puyallup | 681 | 48.9% | 46.2% |
| Olympic View Elementary Lacey | 552 | 46.7% | 53.5% |
| Discovery Primary School Milton | 506 | 50.0% | N/A |
| Sunrise Elementary Puyallup | 724 | 53.5% | 39.1% |
| Southworth Elementary Yelm | 671 | 46.5% | 44.8% |
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 Woodland Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.9% | #259 of 936 | #38 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #384 of 1,103 ▼ 177 | #53 of 142 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #396 of 1,102 ▼ 96 | #54 of 142 ▼ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.6pp | #54 of 928 | #10 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 606 | #94 of 1,268 | #17 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #936 of 1,085 | #118 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #273 of 1,088 | #73 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.8% | #643 of 1,169 | #85 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.6% | #481 of 778 | #57 of 91 |
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
606
+56 (+10%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 468
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 606 | 34.3 | 17.7:1 | 50% (302) |
| 2023-24 | 592 | 35.3 | 16.8:1 | 49% (293) |
| 2022-23 | 571 | 33 | 17.3:1 | 49% (277) |
| 2020-21 | 550 | 33 | 16.7:1 | 35% (193) |
| 2017-18 | 701 | 35.2 | 19.9:1 | 36% (255) |
| 2015-16 | 702 | 34 | 20.6:1 | 46% (321) |
| 2010-11 | 614 | 28 | 21.9:1 | 42% (255) |
| 2000-01 | 617 | 28 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 468 | 31 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodland Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (701 to 606); teachers down 3% (35.2 to 34.3).
About Woodland Elementary
A high-enrollment elementary school in Puyallup, Washington, Woodland Elementary is part of Puyallup School District. It has an enrollment of 606 students in kindergarten through 6. That compares with an average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
Woodland Elementary is part of Puyallup School District, where 37 schools serve 23,026 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Woodland Elementary is White, with 46% of students. The next largest groups are 23% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 5% Black. The school's White share is 18 points below the 64% share among Pierce County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
There are about 17.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Woodland Elementary, which has 34.3. That is in line with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Woodland Elementary is about 50%. The figure for public schools in Pierce County is close, at 50%.
Woodland Elementary holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 77% of Washington public elementary schools.
Woodland Elementary beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 13.1 points (59.9% versus 46.8%), a top-10% result in Washington on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Pierce County, median household income comes to about $99,564, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 287 public schools and about 138,462 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Puyallup Open Doors/POD, is about 0.6 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Woodland Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Woodland Elementary as Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 10%, from 550 to 606. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 17.7:1, from 16.7:1.
The discussion board for Woodland Elementary is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Puyallup School District
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other schools in Puyallup
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other Woodland Elementary schools
39 other US public schools in 23 states are named Woodland Elementary. Woodland Elementary is the 8th largest of the 40.
- Woodland ElementaryLacey, WA · 458 students
- Woodland ElementaryGages Lake, IL · 1,386 students
- Woodland ElementaryGreer, SC · 1,293 students
- Woodland Elementary SchoolAtlanta, GA · 851 students
- WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLZEPHYRHILLS, FL · 792 students
Nearby schools
- Puyallup Open Doors/POD0.6 mi · 124
- Puyallup Online Academy/POA0.6 mi · 199
- Puyallup Parent Partnership Program0.6 mi · 96
- Gov John Rogers High School1.4 mi · 1,788
- Fruitland Elementary1.4 mi · 566
- Edward Zeiger Elem1.5 mi · 500
Frequently asked questions
About Woodland ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Woodland Elementary?
Woodland Elementary enrolls approximately 606 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Woodland Elementary serve?
Woodland Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Woodland Elementary?
Approximately 17.7:1 students per teacher at Woodland Elementary.
How diverse is Woodland Elementary?
Woodland Elementary reports a student body of 46% White, 23% Hispanic, 5% Black, 6% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Woodland Elementary in?
Woodland Elementary is part of Puyallup School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.