# Happy Valley Elementary School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530042000106`
- **School name**: Happy Valley Elementary School
- **Location**: Bellingham, WA 98225
- **Address**: 1041 24th St
- **District**: Bellingham School District (LEAID `5300420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 48.72226, -122.48373
- **Phone**: (360)676-6420

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 455
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 2: Targeted 3+
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 5
  - proficiency_math_decile: 7
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 6
  - growth_ela_decile: 3
  - growth_math_decile: 4
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 3.5
  - el_progress_decile: 5
  - regularattendance_decile: 5
  - sqss_combined_decile: 5
  - _2025_score: 4.65
  - overall: Tier 2: Targeted 3+

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.7% (96 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.0%
- **Black/African American**: 4.1%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 12.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.5% — 60 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,848
- **Federal share**: $351
- **State + local share**: $16,497
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 471
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,862,663
- **Federal share**: 9.9%
- **State share**: 59.5%
- **Local share**: 30.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,367,689

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $38,565
- **Poverty rate**: 35.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,278
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.6 miles (OESER CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.40 miles (RG HALEY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.65172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sehome High School** — 0.4 mi away, 16.15% (this school: 24.74%)
- **Bellingham Family Partnership Program** — 0.5 mi away, 5.16% (this school: 24.74%)
- **Lowell Elementary School** — 0.7 mi away, 24.35% (this school: 24.74%)
- **Fairhaven Middle School** — 1.0 mi away, 22.9% (this school: 24.74%)
- **Wade King Elementary School** — 1.9 mi away, 9.61% (this school: 24.74%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sehome High School** — 0.4 mi away, 76% (this school: 51%)
- **Lowell Elementary School** — 0.7 mi away, 63.3% (this school: 51%)
- **Fairhaven Middle School** — 1.0 mi away, 67% (this school: 51%)
- **Wade King Elementary School** — 1.9 mi away, 54.2% (this school: 51%)
- **Bellingham High School** — 2.4 mi away, 74.8% (this school: 51%)

### math proficiency
- **Lowell Elementary School** — 0.7 mi away, 55.9% (this school: 52.2%)
- **Fairhaven Middle School** — 1.0 mi away, 57.7% (this school: 52.2%)
- **Wade King Elementary School** — 1.9 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 52.2%)
- **Kulshan Middle School** — 2.8 mi away, 59.1% (this school: 52.2%)
- **Silver Beach Elementary School** — 4.4 mi away, 62.8% (this school: 52.2%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/happy-valley-elementary-school-bellingham/workforce

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