Evergreen Elementary School

Spokane, WA · Grades K–5

Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA

Neighborhood

Decoded Rank

All factors combined

Top 30% decoded

#34 of 128

plausibly #22–49

Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA schools

★ Above Expected

#375 in WA

Achievement Rank

Raw test performance

Middle 40% achievement

#67 of 128

Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA schools

#692 in WA

places from achievement to Decoded Rank

Raw scores are modest, but students tend to gain ground relative to peers while enrolled.

Data confidence:High481 students tested 7 years97% participation

Confidence is computed from sample size, year coverage, and participation rate. Higher confidence means the rank shift is stable across years and not driven by a single small cohort.

  • Tested students: total students with valid scores across all reported years.
  • Years of data: number of school years included. More years smooths year-to-year noise.
  • Participation: share of enrolled students who took the assessment. Low participation can bias scores.

What's driving this rank

Decoded Rank: #34 of 128

in Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA schools

Raw test scores rank this school #67, but after accounting for context, students here outperform what the data would predict. The Decoded Rank places it at #34.

Each component below is scored on a 0–100 within-metro scale. A qualitative band summarizes where the school lands.

  • Above averagePerforms above what its context predictsCounts for 35% of the rank

    After accounting for income and demographics, does this school beat what the data would predict?

  • Above averageStudents gain ground year over yearCounts for 30% of the rank

    Are kids at this school learning faster than typical for the metro?

  • About averageEquity within the schoolCounts for 15% of the rank

    Are students clustered at similar levels, or split between top and bottom?

  • About averageDirection over recent yearsCounts for 10% of the rank

    Is this school's Decoded Rank trending up or down across the years we have data for?

  • StrongMost students were testedCounts for 10% of the rank

    Was the rank computed against a representative share of the school's students?

Show the numbersFor the methodology-curious

Each component is converted to a 0–100 within-metro percentile (100 = top of the metro). "Contribution" is the percentile-points the component adds to (or subtracts from) the metro median before the schools are re-ranked into the composite.

Per-component contributions to this school's Decoded Rank composite. Weight is the share each component carries; percentile is the school's within-metro score on that component.
ComponentWeightPercentileContribution
Performs above what its context predicts 35%64+4.9
Students gain ground year over year 30%76+7.7
Equity within the school 15%45-0.8
Direction over recent years 10%50+0.0
Most students were tested 10%97+4.7

How the Decoded Rank composite is computed

Why trust this?
  • Public data sources
  • Context-adjusted model
  • Confidence shown
  • Methodology published

This score uses state assessment data, NCES enrollment data, and Census ACS 5-year neighborhood data. The Decoded Rank adjusts for school context — student demographics, ELL/SPED service rates, and the socioeconomic profile of the surrounding tract — and shows how the school performs relative to expectation, not in absolute terms.

SchoolDecoder is one signal, not a verdict. Decoded Rank is a context-adjusted residual, not a causal claim about teaching quality. See full methodology →

All Rankings

How this school ranks across the metro, state, and among demographic peers.

ScopeAchievementDecodedShift
Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA (128 schools)#67#34
WA (1503 schools)#692#375
Among similar schools (6 peers)#3#2

Resource context

School inputs, not ranking points

These fields describe the school and surrounding neighborhood. They help readers interpret the page, but this is not a dollar-by-dollar or ratio-by-ratio scorecard and the fields here are not components of the Decoded Rank.

Enrollment
456
Free/reduced-price lunch
50.7%
Student-teacher ratio
15.2:1
Locale
Suburb, large
School type
Regular public school
Enrollment model
Neighborhood attendance area
Neighborhood median income
$79,867ACS tract proxy
Neighborhood poverty
0.1%ACS tract proxy
SES index
47.6
Assessment data year
2024
CCD year
2023
ACS vintage
2020-2024

Within Mead School District: #4 of 13.Top-40% in district. View district

Performance Spread

How students are distributed across the four state-assessment proficiency levels — L1: below standard, L2: approaching, L3: meets (proficient), L4: exceeds. This describes the shape of results at the school, not their height.

Students at this school are typically spread across proficiency levels.

  • Level 1 — Below standard27%
  • Level 2 — Approaching standard27%
  • Level 3 — Meets standard (proficient)27%
  • Level 4 — Exceeds standard19%

Performance Spread measures how evenly students are distributed across the L1..L4 proficiency ladder, treating the levels as an ordered scale (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4) and weighting each by its student share. A school where most students cluster at one level has a TIGHT spread; a school split between the bottom and top has a WIDE or BIMODAL spread. Bimodal fires only when BOTH tails are non-trivial AND the middle is relatively hollow (pct_L1 ≥ 15, pct_L4 ≥ 25, pct_L2 + pct_L3 ≤ 60). It describes shape — NOT how high the school's scores are. Methodology

Nearby Schools

Sorted by distance. Both rank columns shown so you can compare quickly.

SchoolAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Shiloh Hills Elementary#87#83High
Spokane International Academy#40#80Also HS #17High
Linwood Elementary#102#115High
Prairie View Elementary#13#27High
Mead Learning Options Rankings coming soon.

Similar Schools

Schools with comparable demographics, income, and size. Both rank columns shown for direct comparison.

SchoolAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Blaine Middle School#33#19High
North Star Elementary#342#467High
Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School Rankings coming soon.
Yelm Prairie Elementary#33#34High
Monte Cristo Elementary#530#642High

Historical Ranks

Year-by-year decoded and achievement ranks. Pandemic-affected years are excluded — we don't interpolate scores across the gap.

YearAchievementDecodedShift
2024#67#34
2023#55#19

Note: assessment transitions (where a state changes its test) are footnoted on the methodology page; trends are not computed across breakpoints.

Trajectory

2023: percentile 702024: percentile 64

Trending down

Based on 2 years (2023–2024).

Slope: -5.5 pct/yr (no CI — too few years)

Low confidence

How this works: we fit a linear trend across the available years of Decoded percentile, then bucket the slope into a direction. Wide confidence intervals (uncertain trends) collapse to Holding steady. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Cohort Progression

Kids who started 3rd grade here in 2023 gained 18 proficiency points by 4th grade — gaining, versus a metro median of about 0/yr.

Based on 16 cohorts across math + ELA.

Learning rate: +5.6 proficiency points/yr (95% CI -2.7 to 13.9)

Medium confidence

Cohort 2015201620172018201920232024 Slope
ELA · started 6th in 2015
G6
275
ELA · started 5th in 2015
G5
239
G6
266
+27.0
ELA · started 4th in 2015
G4
288
G5
263
G6
264
-12.3
ELA · started 3rd in 2015
G3
251
G4
292
G5
291
G6
272
+6.2
ELA · started 3rd in 2016
G3
277
G4
272
G5
262
G6
287
+1.8
ELA · started 3rd in 2017
G3
272
G4
305
G5
308
+18.1
ELA · started 3rd in 2018
G3
251
G4
287
+36.9
ELA · started 3rd in 2019
G3
242
ELA · started 5th in 2023
G5
246
ELA · started 4th in 2023
G4
255
G5
259
+4.0
ELA · started 3rd in 2023
G3
241
G4
260
+18.4
ELA · started 3rd in 2024
G3
189
Math · started 6th in 2015
G6
287
Math · started 5th in 2015
G5
254
G6
277
+22.8
Math · started 4th in 2015
G4
282
G5
279
G6
278
-2.0
Math · started 3rd in 2015
G3
286
G4
293
G5
295
G6
274
-3.1
Math · started 3rd in 2016
G3
300
G4
301
G5
274
G6
283
-7.7
Math · started 3rd in 2017
G3
308
G4
308
G5
293
-7.8
Math · started 3rd in 2018
G3
271
G4
287
+16.2
Math · started 3rd in 2019
G3
279
Math · started 5th in 2023
G5
238
Math · started 4th in 2023
G4
252
G5
228
-23.4
Math · started 3rd in 2023
G3
241
G4
271
+29.7
Math · started 3rd in 2024
G3
225

How this works: we follow each grade-cohort across years through the school (3rd graders in 2023 are 4th graders in 2024, etc.) and fit a linear slope on a 100–400 proficiency-points scale built from the state assessment's four levels (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4, weighted by student share). This is the same construction Stanford SEDA uses (edopportunity.org/methods); it's not student-level tracking — we measure the school's cohort, not individuals. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Evidence & technical detailClick to expand

School Alpha

School Alpha is the residual between actual and expected performance once school context is held constant. It is a context-adjusted estimate, not a causal claim about teaching quality.

Shrunk Alpha (95% CI)
+0.19 (95% CI: +0.11 to +0.26)

SES index components

SES method
Blended SES index (ACS + FRL)
SES index value
47.6
FRL %
50.7%
ELL %
7.4% · WA OSPI Report Card Enrollment
SPED %
28.7% · WA OSPI Report Card Enrollment
Tract median income (ACS 5-year)
$79,867
Tract poverty rate
0.1%
Tract % bachelor's+
27.4%

What "Decoded Rank" means

Decoded Rank converts School Alpha — the context-adjusted residual — into a parent-facing rank within the metro pool. A higher Decoded Rank than Achievement Rank means the school's raw scores understate its performance once neighborhood and school context are held constant. The reverse means raw scores overstate it. The rank is one signal, not a verdict.

Data & sources

Assessment data
2023–24 school year
NCES CCD vintage
2023
Census ACS 5-year vintage
2020-2024
Last updated
July 26, 2026
Methodology version
0.9.0
Source files (3)

SchoolDecoder publishes context-adjusted residuals, not causal estimates. Decoded Rank is one signal — not a verdict on teaching quality. Read about limitations →