Enrollment
367
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030003174
Arthur Jacobsen Elementary
29205 132ND AVE SE, Auburn, WA 98092 · (253) 630-2441 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL367 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
220 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 29 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 33% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
32.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -27.1pp since 2014
Math
29.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -25.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 27 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 26 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 29.5% |
| 2023-24 | 34.8% | 34.4% |
| 2022-23 | 35.3% | 39.6% |
| 2021-22 | 44.0% | 40.4% |
| 2018-19 | 58.1% | 56.0% |
| 2017-18 | 64.8% | 59.9% |
| 2016-17 | 58.8% | 61.1% |
| 2015-16 | 61.8% | 57.8% |
| 2014-15 | 59.0% | 55.4% |
% 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
32.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Arthur Jacobsen Elementary
Arthur Jacobsen Elementary's state test result (32.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Jacobsen Elementary this school | 367 | 59.9% | 32.7% |
| Tiffany Park Elementary School Renton | 379 | 62.0% | 41.7% |
| Emerald Park Elementary School Kent | 318 | 58.2% | 41.6% |
| Ardmore Elementary School Bellevue | 415 | 53.5% | 38.4% |
| Panther Lake Elementary School Kent | 396 | 62.1% | 31.1% |
| Martin Sortun Elementary School Kent | 450 | 51.1% | 53.0% |
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 Arthur Jacobsen Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.7% | #762 of 936 | #232 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #888 of 1,103 ▼ 131 | #236 of 281 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #908 of 1,102 ▼ 56 | #235 of 280 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -11.4pp | #25 of 928 | #9 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 367 | #749 of 1,268 | #208 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #218 of 1,085 | #54 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.7% | #99 of 1,088 | #54 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.9% | #446 of 1,169 | #84 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.7% | #57 of 778 | #26 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
367
-162 (-31%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 451
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 367 | 25.4 | 14.4:1 | 60% (220) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 25.9 | 13.8:1 | 61% (217) |
| 2022-23 | 352 | 27.3 | 12.9:1 | 58% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 35 | 15.1:1 | 51% (272) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 33.7 | 16.9:1 | 46% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 650 | 32 | 20.3:1 | 47% (307) |
| 2010-11 | 451 | 22 | 20.5:1 | 28% (128) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Arthur Jacobsen Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (571 to 367); teachers down 25% (33.7 to 25.4).
About Arthur Jacobsen Elementary
Arthur Jacobsen Elementary is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Auburn, Washington. It serves 367 students in pre-K through 5.
In Auburn School District, 26 schools enroll a combined 18,174 students.
Asian students form the largest group at Arthur Jacobsen Elementary, 32% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 26% White, 21% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 8% Black. In King County overall, about 21% of residents are Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Arthur Jacobsen Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 77%.
Staffing totals 25.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 60%. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in King County is 22 points.
A school with Arthur Jacobsen Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Washington is predicted to score 40.0%. Arthur Jacobsen Elementary scores 32.7%, 7.2 points below that line.
Recent Census Bureau figures for King County show that median household income is about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 544 public schools in King County, with a combined enrollment of about 278,492.
Auburn Mountainview High School is the public school closest to Arthur Jacobsen Elementary, about 0.2 miles away. Arthur Jacobsen Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Arthur Jacobsen Elementary at 6th of 9.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 529 in 2020-21 and 367 in 2024-25, a decrease of 162 students.
Community posts for Arthur Jacobsen Elementary can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Auburn School District
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other schools in Auburn
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
Nearby schools
- Auburn Mountainview High School0.2 mi · 1,560
- Willow Crest Elementary0.7 mi · 656
- Hazelwood Elementary School1.1 mi · 502
- Lea Hill Elementary School1.1 mi · 593
- Pine Tree Elementary School1.2 mi · 305
- Horizon Elementary School1.2 mi · 408
Frequently asked questions
About Arthur Jacobsen ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Arthur Jacobsen Elementary?
Arthur Jacobsen Elementary enrolls approximately 367 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Arthur Jacobsen Elementary serve?
Arthur Jacobsen Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Arthur Jacobsen Elementary?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Arthur Jacobsen Elementary.
How diverse is Arthur Jacobsen Elementary?
Arthur Jacobsen Elementary reports a student body of 26% White, 21% Hispanic, 8% Black, 32% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Arthur Jacobsen Elementary public or private?
Arthur Jacobsen Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Auburn School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.