Edison Elementary, Centralia WA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Edison Elementary

Edison Elementary is a regular public school in Centralia serving kindergarten through sixth grade. It is one of the elementary campuses within the Centralia School District, a mid-sized district in Lewis County. The school sits inside the city limits, on H Street in a residential area away from the downtown historic district.

Enrollment is moderate for an elementary school, with a roughly balanced distribution across grade levels from kindergarten through sixth grade. The student body is majority white and includes a substantial share of Hispanic students, with smaller numbers of students who identify as two or more races, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Asian, or Black. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers about four-fifths of the student population, making this a school with a high concentration of students from lower-income households. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available in the records provided.

State assessment results from the 2024-25 school year are the only year of testing data on file, so there is no trend line to examine. On the Smarter Balanced assessments for math and English language arts, performance varies notably by grade level. In third grade, the share of students meeting proficiency standards in both subjects is modest. By fourth grade, proficiency rates in both math and English rise to a more moderate level, with about half of students meeting the bar in English and slightly fewer in math. Fifth grade shows similar English proficiency and a slightly lower math rate; fifth-grade science results are in a comparable range. Sixth grade dips again in both subjects, with English proficiency lower than the earlier grades and math also below the fourth-grade peak. Overall, when averaged across all tested subjects and grades, the school’s proficiency index places it above the midpoint among the set of districts in Lewis County, though the index itself is within a fairly narrow band across the county’s schools. A parent looking at the variability between grades may want to ask the school about how instruction and support are structured across the upper elementary years.

Because Edison serves only grades K-6, no graduation rate data is reported. The school does not offer high school coursework or career pathways within its own building, but the Centralia School District recently launched a new career and technical education program in green energy called REVIT, developed in partnership with Lewis County Transit and funded by state grants. That program is aimed at older students but signals a district-level investment in expanding vocational options.

The community context matters for families considering the school. Centralia is a small city along Interstate 5 roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, with a historic downtown that revitalized in the 1980s as an antique and specialty shopping district. The local economy has shifted from its historical roots in coal mining, lumber, and dairying toward healthcare, education, retail, and logistics. Centralia College, a community college, adds an educational anchor. Housing in the area is moderately priced relative to the broader Washington market, with home values and rents that are below the state median, though the national affordability picture shows that both buying and renting consume a notable share of median household income. The city has experienced steady moderate population growth over recent decades, with low housing vacancy rates indicating a relatively tight market.

Overall, Edison Elementary serves a high-need student body with a majority qualifying for income-based meal assistance, and its state test results show a mixed picture that improves in the middle elementary grades and softens at the upper end. The school is part of a district that is pursuing new programmatic initiatives, but within its own walls the available data does not describe staffing levels, class sizes, disciplinary patterns, or extracurricular offerings, so those would be questions for a school visit.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 34% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 442%

School 42% · District 36% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 27% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 631%

School 31% · District 29% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 320%

School 20% · District 29% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 451%

School 51% · District 34% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 38% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 639%

School 39% · District 40% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · even with county median

Science

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 40% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

This schoolCentralia School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income37%Higher-income46%9 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income18%Higher-income50%32 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income26%Higher-income46%20 pp gap