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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530723001064
Benson Hill Elementary School
18665 116th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058 · (425) 204-3300 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
239 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 89 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
39.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -6.0pp since 2014
Math
39.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -10.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.8% | 39.8% |
| 2023-24 | 41.5% | 39.1% |
| 2022-23 | 39.1% | 36.2% |
| 2021-22 | 38.0% | 31.7% |
| 2018-19 | 52.0% | 43.1% |
| 2017-18 | 46.5% | 42.2% |
| 2016-17 | 53.0% | 47.8% |
| 2015-16 | 47.6% | 54.3% |
| 2014-15 | 45.9% | 49.8% |
% 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
40.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 Benson Hill Elementary School
Benson Hill Elementary School's state test result (40.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benson Hill Elementary School this school | 477 | 50.1% | 40.0% |
| Martin Sortun Elementary School Kent | 450 | 51.1% | 53.0% |
| Meadow Crest Early Childhood Education Center Renton | 490 | 52.4% | N/A |
| Talbot Hill Elementary School Renton | 445 | 49.0% | 50.9% |
| Sunrise Elementary School Kent | 512 | 44.3% | 67.1% |
| Ardmore Elementary School Bellevue | 415 | 53.5% | 38.4% |
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 Benson Hill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #628 of 936 | #202 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #664 of 1,103 ▼ 11 | #194 of 281 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #751 of 1,102 ▼ 66 | #209 of 280 ▼ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.0pp | #258 of 928 | #64 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #354 of 1,268 | #98 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #506 of 1,085 | #118 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.0% | #91 of 1,088 | #50 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.1% | #629 of 1,169 | #115 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #525 of 778 | #162 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
477
-27 (-5%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 477 | 30.5 | 15.7:1 | 50% (239) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 28.5 | 16.8:1 | 47% (224) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 25.7 | 18.5:1 | 47% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 43% (217) |
| 2017-18 | 541 | 29.8 | 18.2:1 | 45% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 31 | 17.9:1 | 50% (278) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 28 | 19.2:1 | 51% (273) |
| 2000-01 | 560 | 25 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 21 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benson Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (541 to 477); teachers up 2% (29.8 to 30.5).
About Benson Hill Elementary School
Benson Hill Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Washington, with an address in Renton. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 477 students in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Benson Hill Elementary School is one of the 29 schools that make up Renton School District (14,873 students in total).
No group is above 50% at Benson Hill Elementary School; the largest is Asian, at 34%. The school is also 23% Hispanic, 15% Black, 13% White, and 13% multiracial. The Asian share of the county population is lower, at 21%. The diversity index for Benson Hill Elementary School is 77%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Benson Hill Elementary School has 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.7:1. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 50%. That rate is above the 38% average among public schools in King County.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Benson Hill Elementary School's results are 6.6 points below predicted: 40.0% against 46.6%.
For King County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Benson Hill Elementary School, King County has 544 public schools.
The closest school to Benson Hill Elementary School is Glenridge Elementary, located about 0.5 miles away. Benson Hill Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: Benson Hill Elementary School ranks 4th of 8 nearby schools, at 40.0% versus a 38.7% average.
Federal data place Benson Hill Elementary School in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 477, from 504 in 2020-21.
Benson Hill Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. 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 Renton School District
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Lindbergh Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,201 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- McKnight Middle SchoolMiddle · 811 students
- Vera Risdon Middle SchoolMiddle · 751 students
Other schools in Renton
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Lindbergh Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,201 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
Nearby schools
- Glenridge Elementary0.5 mi · 298
- Meeker Middle School0.8 mi · 779
- Impact | Black River Elementary1.1 mi · 209
- Springbrook Elementary School1.4 mi · 350
- Kentridge High School1.4 mi · 2,186
- Kent Laboratory Academy1.4 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About Benson Hill Elementary SchoolHow large is Benson Hill Elementary School?
Benson Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 477 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Benson Hill Elementary School serve?
Benson Hill Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Benson Hill Elementary School have?
Benson Hill Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Benson Hill Elementary School?
Student demographics at Benson Hill Elementary School are roughly 13% White, 23% Hispanic, 15% Black, 34% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Benson Hill Elementary School?
Benson Hill Elementary School is overseen by Renton School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.