Washington State Student Access to Effective Teachers, School Years 2017-18 to 2023-24

Washington state report card data on student access to effective teachers, disaggregated by school, district, and regional levels. The dataset includes seven school years from 2017-18 through 2023-24, with columns for teacher counts, student group demographics, and effectiveness percentages. It is hosted on data.wa.gov and was last updated in January 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze equity gaps by comparing PercentStudentsWithIneffectiveTeacher across different StudentGroupName categories.
• Model school-level teacher effectiveness using TotalTeacherCount, EffectiveTeacherCount, and IneffectiveTeacherCount as features.
• Track trends over time by aggregating PercentStudentsWithEffectiveTeacher by SchoolYear and OrganizationLevel.
• Compare performance across administrative levels using columns for SchoolName, LEAName, and ESDName.

Strengths

• Data spans seven consecutive school years from 2017-18 to 2023-24.
• Disaggregated by multiple organization levels (school, LEA, ESD, state) and student demographic groups.
• Includes 29 columns covering teacher counts, student counts, and calculated effectiveness percentages.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.wa.gov

Collection Method

Likely collected from state-mandated school report cards.

Time Range

School years 2017-18 through 2023-24

Freshness

Last updated 2026-01-27 22:02:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Washington State, USA, with county-level breakdowns.