Albert Einstein Elementary

Albert Einstein Elementary is one of the average-sized primary schools in Redmond, Washington, overseen by Lake Washington School District, with 448 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Lake Washington School District comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 30,986 students; Albert Einstein Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Albert Einstein Elementary reports that the largest single group is Asian at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 26% White, 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 21% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Albert Einstein Elementary records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than King County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Albert Einstein Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for King County shows median household earnings sit near $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Albert Einstein Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Redmond High School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Albert Einstein Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 75.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Albert Einstein Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 454 (now 448). Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 26% to 39%.

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