Armin Jahr Elementary

Armin Jahr Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Bremerton, Washington, run under Bremerton School District, with 495 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Armin Jahr Elementary sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

Bremerton School District comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,383 students; Armin Jahr Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Armin Jahr Elementary records that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 26% White, 11% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kitsap County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Armin Jahr Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Armin Jahr Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kitsap County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Armin Jahr Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of -8.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kitsap County indicate median household income runs about $104,158, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Kitsap County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), Armin Jahr Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: View Ridge Elementary Arts Academy, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Armin Jahr Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Armin Jahr Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 18%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 495 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 27% to 54% over that span.

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