Summary
College Place Elementary is a K–6 school in Lynnwood, Washington, serving 473 students in the Edmonds School District. The school serves a community with relatively high economic needs: 75.26% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. The surrounding district performs well overall, ranking in the 72nd percentile statewide, but College Place Elementary ranked in the 12th percentile among Washington elementary schools and received a one-star rating.
Recent assessment results show broad academic challenges. In 2025–2026, 28.05% of students met the reported standard in English language arts, 20.73% in math, and 27.87% in science—well below both district and state rates. Math is the weakest area, particularly in third and fifth grade, while sixth grade is the school’s relative strength, with 33.33% meeting the ELA standard and 28.57% meeting the math standard. Results have remained near the bottom of the statewide distribution for several years, and performance declined from the prior year in all three tested subjects, most notably science. Subgroup effectiveness rankings are also low, including the 4th percentile for male students, 11th percentile for students from low-income households, and 18th percentile for English Language Learners.
Compared with nearby conventional schools, College Place Elementary is substantially behind Westgate Elementary, Mountlake Terrace Elementary, Chase Lake Elementary, Seaview Elementary, and Edmonds Elementary. Its most similar comparison is Cedar Valley Elementary, which has a comparable subsidized-meal rate and somewhat lower results. College Place’s 14.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio and $19,934 per-student spending are not unusually unfavorable nearby, suggesting that improvement will likely require schoolwide work on foundational math, literacy, intervention systems, grade-to-grade consistency, and student supports rather than simply additional staffing or funding.
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