Benjamin Franklin Elementary

Set in Kirkland, Washington, Benjamin Franklin Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community, one of the schools within Lake Washington School District. It educates 452 students across grades K through 5.

Within Lake Washington School District, which oversees 55 schools and 30,986 students, Benjamin Franklin Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Benjamin Franklin Elementary logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 24% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 21% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Benjamin Franklin Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below King County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, Benjamin Franklin Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.5%; this one delivers 80.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for King County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Benjamin Franklin Elementary is one.

Lake Washington High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Benjamin Franklin Elementary. On composite proficiency, Benjamin Franklin Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Benjamin Franklin Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 455 students in 2018 to 452 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 53% to 24% over that span.

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