Apollo Elementary

Set in RENTON, Washington, Apollo Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Issaquah School District. It works with 496 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% above the state mean of about 380.

Issaquah School District runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 19,098 students. Apollo Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Apollo Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Asian (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% White, 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Apollo Elementary lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Apollo Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Apollo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.8%, the actual is 75.8%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the broader community, King County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Apollo Elementary is one.

Hazen Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Apollo Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

Apollo Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 673 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 44% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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