Enrollment
321
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000430
Adelaide Elementary School
1635 SW 304th ST, Federal Way, WA 98023 · (253) 945-2300 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL321 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of Washington public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
232 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 49 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
32.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -12.9pp since 2014
Math
26.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 26.4% |
| 2023-24 | 27.3% | 22.9% |
| 2022-23 | 40.7% | 27.4% |
| 2021-22 | 38.6% | 25.7% |
| 2018-19 | 50.5% | 39.8% |
| 2017-18 | 41.5% | 40.0% |
| 2016-17 | 35.1% | 36.6% |
| 2015-16 | 38.7% | 32.0% |
| 2014-15 | 44.9% | 36.0% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Adelaide Elementary School
Adelaide Elementary School's state test result (28.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Elementary School this school | 321 | 72.3% | 28.5% |
| Larchmont Elementary School Tacoma | 303 | 71.6% | 34.1% |
| Fern Hill Elementary School Tacoma | 311 | 71.1% | 45.7% |
| Camelot Elementary School AUBURN | 292 | 69.5% | 40.8% |
| Sherwood Forest Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 325 | 68.9% | 38.3% |
| Brigadoon Elementary School Federal Way | 366 | 65.8% | 42.5% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Adelaide Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #819 of 936 | #246 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #940 of 1,103 ▲ 50 | #249 of 281 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #907 of 1,102 ▲ 70 | #234 of 280 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.9pp | #229 of 928 | #69 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 321 | #893 of 1,268 | #239 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #443 of 1,085 | #103 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.5% | #81 of 1,088 | #47 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.3% | #220 of 1,169 | #38 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.7% | #412 of 778 | #132 of 220 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
321
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 531
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 321 | 20.9 | 15.4:1 | 72% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 319 | 22 | 14.5:1 | 77% (247) |
| 2022-23 | 306 | 21 | 14.6:1 | 67% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 318 | 24 | 13.3:1 | 66% (210) |
| 2017-18 | 381 | 24.6 | 15.5:1 | 63% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 379 | 24 | 15.8:1 | 69% (263) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | 24 | 18.3:1 | 44% (193) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 27 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 531 | 22 | 24.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Adelaide Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (381 to 321); teachers down 15% (24.6 to 20.9).
About Adelaide Elementary School
Adelaide Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Federal Way, Washington. Federal data show 321 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Adelaide Elementary School is a school in Federal Way School District. The district has 43 schools and 22,250 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Adelaide Elementary School is Hispanic, with 37% of students. Next come 18% White, 14% multiracial, 13% Black, and 12% Asian. The county population is about 11% Hispanic. The diversity index for Adelaide Elementary School is 78%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Adelaide Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1, with 20.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. The school has 72% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 38% for public schools in King County.
Adelaide Elementary School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 8% of Washington public elementary schools.
Adelaide Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (28.5%) and its predicted rate (31.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools.
For King County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Adelaide Elementary School, King County has 544 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Adelaide Elementary School is closest to Lakota Middle School, about 0.7 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Adelaide Elementary School at 4th of 8.
Adelaide Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 318 in 2020-21 and 321 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 15.4:1, from 13.3:1.
This page is set up for the Adelaide Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in Federal Way
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Illahee Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Lakota Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
Nearby schools
- Lakota Middle School0.7 mi · 645
- Lake Grove Elementary School0.9 mi · 390
- Decatur High School1.0 mi · 1,352
- Silver Lake Elementary School1.3 mi · 382
- Olympic View Elementary School1.4 mi · 547
- Mirror Lake Elementary School1.6 mi · 491
Frequently asked questions
About Adelaide Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Adelaide Elementary School?
Adelaide Elementary School enrolls approximately 321 students in grades PK-05.
Is Adelaide Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Adelaide Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Adelaide Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Adelaide Elementary School is approximately 15.4:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Adelaide Elementary School?
At Adelaide Elementary School, the student body is approximately 18% White, 37% Hispanic, 13% Black, 12% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Adelaide Elementary School public or private?
Adelaide Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Federal Way School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.