# Nelson Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530048003288`
- **School name**: Nelson Elementary School
- **Location**: Graham, WA 98338
- **Address**: 22109 108th Ave E
- **District**: Bethel School District (LEAID `5300480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 47.05540, -122.28590
- **Phone**: (253)800-6400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 497
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 6
  - proficiency_math_decile: 9
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 7.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 6
  - growth_math_decile: 9
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 7.5
  - el_progress_decile: 8
  - regularattendance_decile: 5
  - sqss_combined_decile: 5
  - _2025_score: 7.4
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (123 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2017
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.7%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,831
- **Federal share**: $754
- **State + local share**: $15,077
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 736
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,529,102
- **Federal share**: 8.5%
- **State share**: 66.9%
- **Local share**: 24.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,501,524

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,875
- **Poverty rate**: 9.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,185
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (HIDDEN VALLEY LANDFILL THUN FIELD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.55 miles (HERITAGE BANK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GRAHAM HILL MUTUAL WATER CO INC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.14643 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Bethel Virtual Academy** — 2.3 mi away, 10.74% (this school: 17.98%)
- **Emma L Carson Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 15.08% (this school: 17.98%)
- **Frank Brouillet Elem** — 3.2 mi away, 16.99% (this school: 17.98%)
- **Doris Stahl Junior High** — 3.3 mi away, 17.86% (this school: 17.98%)
- **G W Edgerton Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 17.72% (this school: 17.98%)

### ela proficiency
- **Graham Kapowsin High School** — 0.1 mi away, 59.7% (this school: 55.7%)
- **Graham Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 57.8% (this school: 55.7%)
- **Bethel High School** — 4.3 mi away, 65.7% (this school: 55.7%)
- **Clover Creek Elementary** — 5.5 mi away, 58.9% (this school: 55.7%)
- **Katherine G. Johnson Elementary School** — 6.0 mi away, 57.2% (this school: 55.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Pioneer Valley Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 60.9% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Camas Prairie Elementary** — 7.2 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Carbonado Historical School 19** — 11.1 mi away, 65.9% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Lakeland Hills Elementary** — 14.1 mi away, 64.9% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Bowman Creek Elementary** — 14.7 mi away, 63.2% (this school: 59.4%)

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