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Enrollment
1,918
High
DISTRICT 1,356 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030000032
Auburn Senior High School
711 E MAIN ST, AUBURN, WA 98002 · (253) 931-4880 · King County
GRADES 09–12HIGH13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,918 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of Washington public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
100 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
1,213 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 477 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 518 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 482 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 441 | 23% |
Student demographics
76%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
43.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +26.5pp since 2014
Math
16.3%
WA avg 51.2% . +7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 27 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.9% | 16.3% |
| 2023-24 | 47.6% | 14.6% |
| 2022-23 | 47.1% | 16.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.2% | 19.0% |
| 2018-19 | 55.2% | 18.0% |
| 2017-18 | 59.9% | 22.1% |
| 2016-17 | 2.7% | 2.1% |
| 2015-16 | 14.3% | 19.3% |
| 2014-15 | 17.4% | 8.5% |
% 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
29.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Auburn Senior High School
Auburn Senior High School's state test result (29.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn Senior High School this school | 1,918 | 63.2% | 29.5% |
| Mariner High School Everett | 2,106 | 62.5% | 40.5% |
| Decatur High School FEDERAL WAY | 1,352 | 64.8% | 20.1% |
| Franklin Pierce High School TACOMA | 977 | 64.4% | 36.8% |
| Cascade High School Everett | 1,651 | 61.2% | 46.1% |
| Spanaway Lake High School Spanaway | 1,787 | 60.5% | 35.1% |
Matched among Washington high 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 Auburn Senior High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #228 of 271 | #46 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #250 of 321 ▲ 12 | #46 of 59 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #262 of 327 ▼ 17 | #47 of 61 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.5pp | #71 of 259 | #15 of 57 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,918 | #28 of 570 | #10 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #97 of 311 | #15 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.1% | #21 of 316 | #12 of 67 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.2% | #96 of 386 | #19 of 76 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.4% | #73 of 136 | #16 of 31 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,918
+188 (+11%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 1,992
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 1,918 | 100.2 | 19.1:1 | 63% (1,213) |
| 2023-24 | 1,935 | 99.5 | 19.4:1 | 65% (1,253) |
| 2022-23 | 1,844 | 95.8 | 19.3:1 | 67% (1,232) |
| 2020-21 | 1,730 | 94 | 18.4:1 | 60% (1,036) |
| 2017-18 | 1,770 | 88.6 | 20.0:1 | 58% (1,021) |
| 2015-16 | 1,639 | 83 | 19.8:1 | 60% (987) |
| 2010-11 | 1,711 | 83 | 20.6:1 | 37% (627) |
| 2000-01 | 2,227 | 99 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,992 | 89 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Auburn Senior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (1,770 to 1,918); teachers up 13% (88.6 to 100.2).
About Auburn Senior High School
Auburn Senior High School is a high-enrollment high school in Washington, with an address in AUBURN. Total enrollment is 1,918 students, and the grades served are 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in Washington enroll about 573 students on average.
Auburn School District oversees Auburn Senior High School and 25 other schools, with 18,174 students in total.
Hispanic students make up 39% of enrollment at Auburn Senior High School, the largest share of any group. Other reported shares: 24% White, 11% Asian, 9% Black, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 11% Hispanic among all King County residents. A diversity index of 76% means there is a 76% chance two randomly chosen students at Auburn Senior High School are from different groups.
Auburn Senior High School has 100.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.1:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in Washington is 21.6:1. At Auburn Senior High School, 63% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 25 points above the 38% average for public schools in King County.
On the allk12 Grade, Auburn Senior High School lands at D, ahead of 10% of Washington public high schools.
In Washington, Auburn Senior High School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 29.5% actual against a predicted 37.8%.
The school's county is King County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 544 public schools in the county, enrolling about 278,492, Auburn Senior High School among them.
Washington Elementary School is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 31.0%; Auburn Senior High School's is 29.5%, ranking 3rd of 6.
Auburn Senior High School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 1,918, up from 1,730 in 2020-21.
The allk12 page for Auburn Senior High School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 Auburn School District
- 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
- Rainier Middle SchoolMiddle · 907 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- 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
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other Auburn Senior High schools
One other US public school is named Auburn Senior High. Auburn Senior High School is the largest of the 2.
- Auburn Senior HighAuburn, MA · 834 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Elementary School0.1 mi · 501
- Special Ed School0.2 mi · 35
- Auburn Opportunity Project0.7 mi · 92
- West Auburn Senior High School0.7 mi · 506
- Terminal Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 610
- Dick Scobee Elementary School0.8 mi · 675
Frequently asked questions
About Auburn Senior High SchoolHow large is Auburn Senior High School?
Auburn Senior High School enrolls approximately 1,918 students in grades 09-12.
Is Auburn Senior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Auburn Senior High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Auburn Senior High School?
Approximately 19.1:1 students per teacher at Auburn Senior High School.
How diverse is Auburn Senior High School?
Auburn Senior High School reports a student body of 24% White, 39% Hispanic, 9% Black, 11% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Auburn Senior High School?
Auburn Senior High School is overseen by Auburn School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.