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What tradition at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423000656
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary
11212 NE 112TH, Kirkland, WA 98033 · (425) 936-2510 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Washington public elementary schools
- A-Test 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.
- DThree-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
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
148 students
DISTRICT 13% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 | 73 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 31% larger than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
56.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.6pp since 2014
Math
53.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.6% | 53.1% |
| 2023-24 | 67.6% | 61.3% |
| 2022-23 | 74.5% | 62.3% |
| 2021-22 | 67.3% | 57.1% |
| 2018-19 | 73.9% | 65.5% |
| 2017-18 | 74.8% | 64.3% |
| 2016-17 | 68.3% | 66.5% |
| 2015-16 | 70.7% | 63.0% |
| 2014-15 | 57.2% | 53.3% |
% 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
61.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Alexander Graham Bell Elementary
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary's state test result (61.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Graham Bell Elementary this school | 503 | 29.4% | 61.6% |
| Picnic Point Elementary Edmonds | 454 | 33.0% | 58.8% |
| Columbia Elementary Mukilteo | 596 | 33.2% | 58.5% |
| Issaquah Valley Elementary ISSAQUAH | 646 | 26.2% | 65.1% |
| Robert Frost Elementary Kirkland | 424 | 32.3% | 59.9% |
| Frank Love Elementary Bothell | 492 | 23.6% | 60.8% |
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 Alexander Graham Bell Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #235 of 936 | #127 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #386 of 1,103 ▼ 142 | #149 of 281 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #371 of 1,102 ▼ 181 | #142 of 280 ▼ 38 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.3pp | #77 of 928 | #26 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #277 of 1,268 | #72 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #439 of 1,085 | #101 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #263 of 1,088 | #140 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.4% | #944 of 1,169 | #169 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.9% | #85 of 257 | #25 of 54 |
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
503
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 547
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 503 | 32.7 | 15.4:1 | 29% (148) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 29.7 | 17.5:1 | 26% (133) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 31.5 | 16.4:1 | 22% (112) |
| 2020-21 | 493 | 32 | 15.4:1 | 16% (80) |
| 2017-18 | 434 | 25.5 | 17.0:1 | 24% (106) |
| 2015-16 | 392 | 23 | 17.0:1 | 26% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 387 | 25 | 15.5:1 | 21% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 383 | 23 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 547 | 28 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alexander Graham Bell Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (434 to 503); teachers up 28% (25.5 to 32.7).
About Alexander Graham Bell Elementary
Families in Kirkland, Washington, are served by Alexander Graham Bell Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. There are 503 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. The school is 32% larger than the average for elementary schools in Washington.
Lake Washington School District serves 30,986 students across 55 schools.
The largest group at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary is White students, at 42%. After that, the student body is 27% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. Census figures show King County is about 55% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Alexander Graham Bell Elementary scores 71%.
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary has 32.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.4:1. The school's 15.4:1 compares with an average of 17.3:1 for elementary schools in Washington. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 29%. That is 9 points below the 38% average for public schools in King County.
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 54% of Washington public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Alexander Graham Bell Elementary is 1.2 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 61.6% actual, 60.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Washington.
For the population of King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Across King County, 544 public schools serve about 278,492 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Kirkland Middle School, is about 0.9 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Alexander Graham Bell Elementary is 5th on average proficiency.
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 493 in 2020-21 and 503 in 2024-25.
Anyone can start a thread about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Kirkland
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Kirkland Middle SchoolMiddle · 746 students
- Finn Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 664 students
- Lakeview ElementaryElementary · 602 students
- Peter Kirk ElementaryElementary · 592 students
Nearby schools
- Kirkland Middle School0.9 mi · 746
- Juanita High School1.0 mi · 1,778
- Peter Kirk Elementary1.1 mi · 592
- Washington Network for Innovative Careers Skill Center1.2 mi · 266
- Lake Washington Technical Academy1.2 mi · 138
- Open Doors at LWIT1.2 mi · 5
Frequently asked questions
About Alexander Graham Bell ElementaryHow many students attend Alexander Graham Bell Elementary?
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary enrolls approximately 503 students in grades PK-05.
Is Alexander Graham Bell Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary is approximately 15.4:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary?
Student demographics at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary are roughly 42% White, 27% Hispanic, 4% Black, 18% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Alexander Graham Bell Elementary in?
Alexander Graham Bell Elementary is part of Lake Washington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.