# Isom Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530462002260`
- **School name**: Isom Elementary School
- **Location**: LYNDEN, WA 98264
- **Address**: 8461 BENSON RD
- **District**: Lynden School District (LEAID `5304620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 48.94950, -122.46560
- **Phone**: (360)354-1992

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 413
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 6
  - proficiency_math_decile: 8
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 7
  - growth_ela_decile: 7
  - growth_math_decile: 8
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 7.5
  - el_progress_decile: 10
  - regularattendance_decile: 9
  - sqss_combined_decile: 9
  - _2025_score: 7.5
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.9% (110 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.8%
- **Black/African American**: 4.9%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 54 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 30 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,187
- **Federal share**: $711
- **State + local share**: $17,476
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 413
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,565,839
- **Federal share**: 11.1%
- **State share**: 67.8%
- **Local share**: 21.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,330,803

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $98,977
- **Poverty rate**: 7.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,655
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.6 miles (OESER CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.84 miles (LITTLE SQUALICUM)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LYNDEN WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.65172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lynden Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 27.85%)
- **Lynden High School** — 1.7 mi away, 25.05% (this school: 27.85%)
- **Lynden Middle School** — 2.3 mi away, 24.8% (this school: 27.85%)
- **Meridian Middle School** — 5.6 mi away, 7.22% (this school: 27.85%)
- **Meridian Special Programs** — 6.6 mi away, 9.38% (this school: 27.85%)

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

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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