# Shining Mountain Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530048001750`
- **School name**: Shining Mountain Elementary
- **Location**: Spanaway, WA 98387
- **Address**: 21615 38th Ave E
- **District**: Bethel School District (LEAID `5300480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 47.06010, -122.37760
- **Phone**: (253)800-5200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 613
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 2: Targeted 3+
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 3
  - proficiency_math_decile: 5
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 4
  - growth_ela_decile: 3
  - growth_math_decile: 3
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 3
  - el_progress_decile: 8
  - regularattendance_decile: 2
  - sqss_combined_decile: 2
  - _2025_score: 3.6
  - overall: Tier 2: Targeted 3+

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.1% (215 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.5%
- **Black/African American**: 3.6%
- **Asian**: 7.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 33.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 8.9%
- **Two or more races**: 18.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.9% — 78 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,655
- **Federal share**: $1,501
- **State + local share**: $17,154
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 614
### 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**: $108,705
- **Poverty rate**: 0.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,683
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (HIDDEN VALLEY LANDFILL THUN FIELD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.51 miles (HERITAGE BANK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SPANAWAY WATER COMPANY
- **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**: 9.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Elk Plain School of Choice** — 1.0 mi away, 27.39% (this school: 30.07%)
- **Pioneer Valley Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 23.18% (this school: 30.07%)
- **Bethel Virtual Academy** — 2.4 mi away, 10.74% (this school: 30.07%)
- **Clover Creek Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 24.42% (this school: 30.07%)
- **Bethel Elementary Learning Academy** — 3.6 mi away, 6.52% (this school: 30.07%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bethel Middle School** — 0.1 mi away, 45.5% (this school: 45.1%)
- **Bethel High School** — 0.4 mi away, 65.7% (this school: 45.1%)
- **Elk Plain School of Choice** — 1.0 mi away, 55.2% (this school: 45.1%)
- **Centennial Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 50.8% (this school: 45.1%)
- **Pioneer Valley Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 55.4% (this school: 45.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Elk Plain School of Choice** — 1.0 mi away, 46.5% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Centennial Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 48% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Pioneer Valley Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 60.9% (this school: 38.3%)
- **North Star Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 50.8% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Clover Creek Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 54.8% (this school: 38.3%)

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