# Sumas Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530567000840`
- **School name**: Sumas Elementary
- **Location**: Sumas, WA 98295
- **Address**: 1024 Lawson Street
- **District**: Nooksack Valley School District (LEAID `5305670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 48.99410, -122.25960
- **Phone**: (360)988-9423

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 295
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 3
  - proficiency_math_decile: 6
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 4.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 3
  - growth_math_decile: 3
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 3
  - el_progress_decile: 8
  - regularattendance_decile: 4
  - sqss_combined_decile: 4
  - _2025_score: 3.9
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (51 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 6.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.2% — 63 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,077
- **Federal share**: $1,114
- **State + local share**: $17,963
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 289
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,494,675
- **Federal share**: 10.3%
- **State share**: 64.6%
- **Local share**: 25.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,037,806

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $96,204
- **Poverty rate**: 5.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,306
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.3 miles (OESER CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.04 miles (1994 FREIGHTLINER SEMI TRUCK RED)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUMAS WATER DEPT
- **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**: 18.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Nooksack Valley Special Services** — 3.0 mi away, 3.45% (this school: 17.96%)
- **Nooksack Elementary** — 5.2 mi away, 10.81% (this school: 17.96%)
- **Lynden Academy** — 10.6 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 17.96%)
- **Meridian Middle School** — 12.1 mi away, 7.22% (this school: 17.96%)
- **Meridian Special Programs** — 14.3 mi away, 9.38% (this school: 17.96%)

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