Public school / Primary
Yelm Prairie Elementary
Yelm, Washington
- NCES ID
- 531014001916
- District
- Yelm School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Yelm Prairie Elementary is a public primary school in Yelm, Washington, run by Yelm School District. It enrols 440 students — the 45270th 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
440
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
17.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
53.4%
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 Yelm 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.
- 1Yelm High School 121,634 students
- 2Yelm Middle School696 students
- 3Southworth Elementary628 students
- 4Ridgeline Middle School574 students
- 5Fort Stevens Elementary511 students
- 6Yelm Prairie Elementary440 students
- 7Mill Pond Elementary School371 students
- 8Mckenna Elementary370 students
- Enrollment+10.8%
- Teachers−3.8%
- Students per teacher+6.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−0.2%
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