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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Bennett Elementary School?
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Enrollment
513
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530039000062
Bennett Elementary School
17900 NE 16th Street, Bellevue, WA 98008 · (425) 456-4800 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
40 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 53 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
73.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -12.1pp since 2014
Math
73.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 73 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 down about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.2% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.3% | 77.8% |
| 2022-23 | 82.8% | 75.9% |
| 2021-22 | 76.7% | 69.4% |
| 2018-19 | 80.2% | 79.2% |
| 2017-18 | 84.8% | 82.2% |
| 2016-17 | 82.9% | 83.9% |
| 2015-16 | 82.7% | 82.0% |
| 2014-15 | 85.3% | 87.2% |
% 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
75.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 Bennett Elementary School
Bennett Elementary School's state test result (75.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Elementary School this school | 513 | 7.8% | 75.7% |
| Grand Ridge Elementary Issaquah | 558 | 8.6% | 82.9% |
| Norman Rockwell Elementary Redmond | 423 | 9.5% | 76.6% |
| Endeavour Elementary School ISSAQUAH | 473 | 10.4% | 87.6% |
| Creekside Elementary Sammamish | 555 | 5.8% | 79.4% |
| Sunny Hills Elementary SAMMAMISH | 574 | 11.3% | 82.5% |
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 Bennett Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #84 of 936 | #68 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #103 of 1,103 ▼ 42 | #69 of 281 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.2% | #119 of 1,102 ▼ 33 | #82 of 280 ▼ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.1pp | #546 of 928 | #154 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #254 of 1,268 | #66 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #992 of 1,085 | #254 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #398 of 1,088 | #185 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.8% | #1,140 of 1,169 | #266 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.9% | #70 of 257 | #24 of 54 |
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
513
+95 (+23%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 413
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 513 | 28.1 | 18.2:1 | 8% (40) |
| 2023-24 | 512 | 28.1 | 18.2:1 | 7% (37) |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 23.4 | 18.6:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 7% (28) |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 27.9 | 15.6:1 | 9% (38) |
| 2015-16 | 439 | 23 | 19.1:1 | 4% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 441 | 20 | 22.1:1 | 9% (39) |
| 2000-01 | 408 | 19 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 413 | 17 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bennett Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (435 to 513); teachers up 1% (27.9 to 28.1).
About Bennett Elementary School
Bennett Elementary School is a public medium-sized elementary school in Bellevue, Washington. Enrollment is 513 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 380 students, so this school is 35% larger than average.
Bennett Elementary School is a school in Bellevue School District. The district has 30 schools and 20,339 students.
Asian students are the largest group at Bennett Elementary School, with 48% of enrollment. Other reported shares: 31% White, 11% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 3% Black. King County's residents are about 21% Asian, 27 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Bennett Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 66%.
Dividing enrollment by its 28.1 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 18.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, lower than at this school. Bennett Elementary School reports 8% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in King County report 38%.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 75.0% at Bennett Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 75.7%.
Within King County, median household income is about $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of King County number 544 and enroll about 278,492.
The school nearest to Bennett Elementary School is John J. Audubon Elementary, at a distance of about 0.9 miles. Within five miles of Bennett Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Bennett Elementary School places 3rd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
In the federal locale system, Bennett Elementary School is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 23%, from 418 to 513. The number of students per teacher rose from 14.4 to 18.2 over 4 years.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 Bellevue School District
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other schools in Bellevue
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other Bennett Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 10 states are named Bennett Elementary. Bennett Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 11.
- Bennett ElementaryManassas, VA · 746 students
- BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFargo, ND · 622 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolWOLFFORTH, TX · 610 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolDETROIT, MI · 498 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolFORT COLLINS, CO · 362 students
Nearby schools
- John J. Audubon Elementary0.9 mi · 431
- Sherwood Forest Elementary0.9 mi · 415
- Interlake Senior High School1.0 mi · 1,611
- Ardmore Elementary School1.2 mi · 415
- Highland Middle School1.8 mi · 589
- Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary1.9 mi · 478
Frequently asked questions
About Bennett Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bennett Elementary School?
Bennett Elementary School enrolls approximately 513 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Bennett Elementary School serve?
Bennett Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Bennett Elementary School have?
Bennett Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Bennett Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bennett Elementary School are roughly 31% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 48% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Bennett Elementary School?
Bennett Elementary School is overseen by Bellevue School District in King County.
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