# Ridgecrest Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/ridgecrest-elementary-puyallup/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/ridgecrest-elementary-puyallup

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530696001795`
- **School name**: Ridgecrest Elementary
- **Location**: Puyallup, WA 98374
- **Address**: 12616 Shaw Rd E
- **District**: Puyallup School District (LEAID `5306960`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 47.14040, -122.25850
- **Phone**: (253)841-8753

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 456
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 7
  - proficiency_math_decile: 9
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 8
  - growth_ela_decile: 7
  - growth_math_decile: 8
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 7.5
  - el_progress_decile: 8
  - regularattendance_decile: 6
  - sqss_combined_decile: 6
  - _2025_score: 7.65
  - overall: Foundational

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 26.4% (117 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.6%
- **Black/African American**: 3.6%
- **Asian**: 4.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.5%
- **Two or more races**: 13.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.7% — 57 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,948
- **Federal share**: $436
- **State + local share**: $17,512
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 469
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,290,361
- **Federal share**: 9.9%
- **State share**: 64.7%
- **Local share**: 25.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,928,286

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $109,167
- **Poverty rate**: 5.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,989
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (HIDDEN VALLEY LANDFILL THUN FIELD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.77 miles (SALISHAN 1 2 3 4 7)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.14643 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Warren Hunt Elem** — 1.0 mi away, 16.9% (this school: 26.35%)
- **Ferrucci Jr High** — 1.5 mi away, 14.15% (this school: 26.35%)
- **Pope Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 13.25% (this school: 26.35%)
- **Wildwood Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 22.77% (this school: 26.35%)
- **Edward Zeiger Elem** — 2.2 mi away, 19.46% (this school: 26.35%)

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