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What's one thing Apollo Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375000570
Apollo Elementary
15025 SE 117TH ST, RENTON, WA 98059 · (425) 837-7500 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
84 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
76.5%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.1pp since 2014
Math
72.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -3.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.5% | 72.8% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 73.3% |
| 2022-23 | 80.2% | 77.7% |
| 2021-22 | 74.8% | 74.5% |
| 2018-19 | 74.6% | 73.7% |
| 2017-18 | 74.0% | 75.5% |
| 2016-17 | 69.4% | 74.7% |
| 2015-16 | 77.3% | 77.3% |
| 2014-15 | 74.4% | 76.5% |
% 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
75.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Apollo Elementary
Apollo Elementary's state test result (75.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Elementary this school | 496 | 16.9% | 75.8% |
| Mark Twain Elementary Kirkland | 550 | 16.7% | 71.9% |
| Rose Hill Elementary Kirkland | 570 | 18.1% | 76.3% |
| Spiritridge Elementary School Bellevue | 546 | 19.8% | 67.3% |
| Briarwood Elementary RENTON | 630 | 15.7% | 77.5% |
| Enatai Elementary School Bellevue | 518 | 21.4% | 65.0% |
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 Apollo Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.8% | #79 of 936 | #64 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #106 of 1,103 ▼ 6 | #71 of 281 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.5% | #86 of 1,102 ▲ 34 | #67 of 280 ▲ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #553 of 928 | #159 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #301 of 1,268 | #79 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #251 of 1,085 | #61 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #262 of 1,088 | #139 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.9% | #1,063 of 1,169 | #212 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.3% | #170 of 778 | #62 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
496
-35 (-7%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 381
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 496 | 34 | 14.6:1 | 17% (84) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 34.9 | 14.5:1 | 18% (93) |
| 2022-23 | 516 | 36.6 | 14.1:1 | 18% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 42 | 12.6:1 | 14% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 673 | 40.1 | 16.8:1 | 16% (111) |
| 2015-16 | 624 | 35 | 17.8:1 | 16% (97) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 27 | 19.8:1 | 15% (82) |
| 2000-01 | 632 | 31 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 381 | 17 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Apollo Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (673 to 496); teachers down 15% (40.1 to 34).
About Apollo Elementary
Families in RENTON, Washington, are served by Apollo Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 496 students. It has 31% more students than the average for elementary schools in Washington (about 380).
Issaquah School District enrolls 19,098 students, and its 30 schools include Apollo Elementary.
Asian students make up 39% of enrollment at Apollo Elementary, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% White, 15% Hispanic, and 12% multiracial. In King County overall, about 21% of residents are Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
A staff of 34 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 14.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington, 17.3:1, is higher. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 17%. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Apollo Elementary is +6.9 points: 75.8% actual, 68.8% predicted.
The school is in King County, where the median household earns about $124,746 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across King County, 544 public schools serve about 278,492 students.
Measured in a straight line, Hazen Senior High School is about 0.7 miles from Apollo Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 75.8% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 8 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 496, down from 531 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher increased from 12.6 to 14.6 over 4 years.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Apollo Elementary. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Issaquah School District
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Maywood Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
Other schools in RENTON
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Lindbergh Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,201 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
Other Apollo Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Apollo Elementary. Apollo Elementary is the 6th largest of the 7.
- Apollo Elementary SchoolBossier City, LA · 756 students
- APOLLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTITUSVILLE, FL · 596 students
- Apollo Elementary SchoolGoddard, KS · 544 students
- Apollo Elementary SchoolDes Plaines, IL · 536 students
- Apollo Elementary SchoolBethany, OK · 509 students
Nearby schools
- Hazen Senior High School0.7 mi · 1,796
- Hilltop Heritage Elementary School0.9 mi · 576
- Maplewood Heights Elementary School1.1 mi · 395
- Honey Dew Elementary1.1 mi · 276
- Briarwood Elementary1.5 mi · 630
- Liberty Sr High School1.6 mi · 1,495
Frequently asked questions
About Apollo ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Apollo Elementary?
Apollo Elementary enrolls approximately 496 students in grades PK-05.
Is Apollo Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Apollo Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Apollo Elementary have?
Apollo Elementary employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
How diverse is Apollo Elementary?
Apollo Elementary reports a student body of 33% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 39% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Apollo Elementary?
Apollo Elementary is overseen by Issaquah School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.