Bowman Creek Elementary

Set in Auburn, Washington, Bowman Creek Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school, overseen by Auburn School District. It enrolls 440 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Bowman Creek Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Auburn School District, a district that caters to 18,174 students overall.

Demographically, Bowman Creek Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 20% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Bowman Creek Elementary logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Bowman Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.7%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Around the school, King County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,746, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Bowman Creek Elementary is one.

Lake Tapps Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bowman Creek Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

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