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Public school / Primary

Sumas Elementary

Sumas, Washington

NCES ID
530567000840
District
Nooksack Valley School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Sumas Elementary is a public primary school in Sumas, Washington, run by Nooksack Valley School District. It enrols 283 students — the 67968th 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

283students

67968th nationally, tied with 120

Teachers

19.0FTE

67148th nationally, tied with 2,240

Students per teacher

14.9students

46570th nationally, tied with 935

Free or reduced-price lunch

67.5%percent

33282nd nationally, tied with 91

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 Nooksack Valley 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Nooksack Valley High School507 students
  2. 2Nooksack Valley Middle School419 students
  3. 3Nooksack Elementary354 students
  4. 4Sumas Elementary283 students
  5. 5Everson Elementary271 students
  6. 6Nooksack Valley Special Services72 students
  7. 7Nooksack Reengagement6 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−28.7%
  • Teachers−26.9%
  • Students per teacher−9.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+26.2%
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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.