NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Edmonds, WA

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14 public K-12 schools in Edmonds from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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14
Schools
7,204
Students
36.9/100
Avg Resource Index
17.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Edmonds has more public-school enrollment than 70% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Edmonds sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

9 of Edmonds's 14 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 47-point gap between Picnic Point Elementary and Edmonds Heights K-12 shows the range hidden by Edmonds's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 30%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
33rd percentile
Teacher staffing
31st percentile

Edmonds Woodway High School accounts for 22.3% of all Edmonds public-school enrollment

That concentration means Edmonds-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Edmonds school enrollment varies 8.1× across entities

Edmonds school enrollment ranges from 197 students (lowest) to 1,605 students (highest), a spread of 1,408 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Edmonds student-teacher ratio is 17.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Edmonds is typically wider than the Edmonds-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Picnic Point Elementary 57
2. Serene Lake Elementary 47
3. Chase Lake Elementary 45
4. Madrona K-8 School 43
5. Edmonds Elementary 43
6. Scriber Lake High School 41
7. Maplewood Parent Coop 40
8. Seaview Elementary 36
9. Sherwood Elementary 35
10. Westgate Elementary 35
11. Lynndale Elementary 35
12. Edmonds Woodway High School 26
13. Woodway Center 24
14. Edmonds Heights K-12 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Edmonds

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Chase Lake Elementary 73.2/100
  2. 2 Lynndale Elementary 72.9/100
  3. 3 Picnic Point Elementary 68.9/100
  4. 4 Edmonds Woodway High School 67.7/100
  5. 5 Serene Lake Elementary 65.9/100

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Which Edmonds school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Picnic Point Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Edmonds schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Edmonds, WA? ▼

Edmonds has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,204 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.