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Public school / Primary

Cottonwood Elementary School

Yakima, Washington

NCES ID
530972001238
District
West Valley School District (Yakima)
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Cottonwood Elementary School is a public primary school in Yakima, Washington, run by West Valley School District (Yakima). It enrols 397 students — the 51357th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

397students

51357th nationally, tied with 127

Teachers

24.0FTE

55524th nationally, tied with 2,299

Students per teacher

16.5students

60758th nationally, tied with 785

Free or reduced-price lunch

36.0%percent

64267th nationally, tied with 95

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within West Valley School District (Yakima)

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1West Valley High School1,527 students
  2. 2West Valley Mid-Level Campus1,194 students
  3. 3Summitview Elementary501 students
  4. 4Wide Hollow Elementary456 students
  5. 5Apple Valley Elementary417 students
  6. 6Cottonwood Elementary School397 students
  7. 7Ahtanum Valley Elementary364 students
  8. 8Mountainview Elementary233 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Washington median across 2,574 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment0.0%
  • Teachers−7.7%
  • Students per teacher0.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−32.7%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.