Public school / Primary
Geneva Elementary School
Bellingham, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530042000105
- District
- Bellingham School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Geneva Elementary School is a public primary school in Bellingham, Washington, run by Bellingham School District. It enrols 432 students — the 46426th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.
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
432
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
16.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
28.5%
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.
Within Bellingham School District
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.
- 1Squalicum High School1,280 students
- 2Bellingham High School1,218 students
- 3Sehome High School1,163 students
- 4Kulshan Middle School623 students
- 5Whatcom Middle School600 students
- 6Fairhaven Middle School597 students
- 7Shuksan Middle School579 students
- 8Happy Valley Elementary School456 students
- Enrollment+8.8%
- Teachers0.0%
- Students per teacher+0.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−46.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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