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Fernwood Elementary

Northshore School District · Elementary · grades K-5 · 3933 Jewell Rd, Bothell, WA 98012-7331

Location

3933 Jewell Rd, Bothell, WA 98012-7331

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
85.7%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
86.1%
#19 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #2 of 20 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
64.9%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
65.7%
#19 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #2 of 20 in this district
3-year trend

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
6.2%
English language learners
22.9%
Highly Capable program
45.2%
Enrollment
715
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
42
Avg years experience
13.7
MA-degree share
64.3%
3-year experience trend

Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.

Nearby schools

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Nearest middle schools by distance
Nearest Highly Capable cohort

Highly Capable / gifted pathway

Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.

Parent capital (PTA / boosters)

Aggregated from IRS Form 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Per NMSC-style caveats elsewhere on this page, PTA revenue is one signal among many, it does not measure educational quality.

Research dossier

Fernwood Elementary

Northshore School District · grades PreK–5 · 715 students · attendance-area school and Elementary Advanced Program host in the district's fastest-growing corridor

The verdict

Fernwood is what a boomtown school looks like after the boom finally gets paid for. Its Bothell catchment absorbed so much new housing that Fernwood and neighboring Kokanee gained 539 elementary students in five years, an entire school's worth, and the campus spent a decade sprawled across as many as 18 portables. In January 2026 the fix landed: a bond-funded two-story building with 13 permanent classrooms, two dedicated music rooms, and an inclusive playground, retiring 16 portables at once. What that building houses is a 715-student school where advanced pacing is the norm rather than the exception. 45.2% of students carry a highly capable designation, and the last self-contained Elementary Advanced Program (EAP) classroom dissolves into a fully integrated model in 2026-27. Families of high-flyers get depth without needing a golden ticket. The sharper questions are for everyone else, because the school's own climate surveys show belonging gaps for Black, Latino, and special-education students, gaps the school documents and is working publicly.

Researched 2026-06-10. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

That is the free excerpt. The full dossier is the rest of the file: how these outcomes hold up in context, how deep the advanced-peer group actually runs, how families get in (and who doesn't), culture signals from handbooks and climate surveys, logistics, neighborhood context, the open questions to ask on your tour, and every citation, so you can check our work. Unlock it for $9, or get a $29 Research Pass with 3 dossiers included.

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