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How has Briarwood Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
630
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375000571
Briarwood Elementary
17020 SE 134TH ST, RENTON, WA 98059 · (425) 837-5000 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL630 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Washington public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
99 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 | 49 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 133 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (133).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
79.3%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.3pp since 2014
Math
77.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +6.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.3% | 77.8% |
| 2023-24 | 77.9% | 74.2% |
| 2022-23 | 76.1% | 71.1% |
| 2021-22 | 72.3% | 69.5% |
| 2018-19 | 83.3% | 78.3% |
| 2017-18 | 79.3% | 78.8% |
| 2016-17 | 75.6% | 74.9% |
| 2015-16 | 77.3% | 73.3% |
| 2014-15 | 77.0% | 71.6% |
% 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
77.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Briarwood Elementary
Briarwood Elementary's state test result (77.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Briarwood Elementary this school | 630 | 15.7% | 77.5% |
| Mark Twain Elementary Kirkland | 550 | 16.7% | 71.9% |
| Lakeview Elementary Kirkland | 602 | 12.1% | 80.0% |
| Rose Hill Elementary Kirkland | 570 | 18.1% | 76.3% |
| Apollo Elementary RENTON | 496 | 16.9% | 75.8% |
| Shelton View Elementary Bothell | 513 | 16.6% | 74.5% |
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 Briarwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #70 of 936 | #57 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.8% | #61 of 1,103 ▲ 29 | #47 of 281 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #59 of 1,102 ▲ 15 | #47 of 280 ▲ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.6pp | #148 of 928 | #32 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 630 | #75 of 1,268 | #14 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #784 of 1,085 | #202 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #323 of 1,088 | #163 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.7% | #1,077 of 1,169 | #221 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.1% | #554 of 778 | #170 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
630
-33 (-5%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 400
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 630 | 37.4 | 16.8:1 | 16% (99) |
| 2023-24 | 645 | 38.2 | 16.9:1 | 19% (121) |
| 2022-23 | 658 | 40 | 16.5:1 | 15% (99) |
| 2020-21 | 663 | 43 | 15.4:1 | 12% (80) |
| 2017-18 | 701 | 41.3 | 17.0:1 | 11% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 638 | 35 | 18.2:1 | 13% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 431 | 20 | 21.6:1 | 15% (64) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 19 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 400 | 21 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Briarwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (701 to 630); teachers down 9% (41.3 to 37.4).
About Briarwood Elementary
Briarwood Elementary, located in RENTON, Washington, is a high-enrollment elementary school. Enrolled students number 630 students, in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students each.
Issaquah School District is the local district for Briarwood Elementary. It runs 30 schools with 19,098 students.
The most common group at Briarwood Elementary is White students, at 39%. Enrollment also includes 37% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 2% Black. The school's White share is 15 points below the 55% share among King County residents. Briarwood Elementary's diversity index is 69%, against a US figure of 70%.
The count of teachers at Briarwood Elementary is 37.4 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 16.8:1. That matches the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington fairly closely. Around 16% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in King County report 38%.
Briarwood Elementary is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 96% of Washington public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 69.7% at Briarwood Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 77.5%.
Federal survey data for King County show that the median household income is $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 544 public schools in King County, enrolling about 278,492 students in all.
The nearest public school is Liberty Sr High School, at about 0.3 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Briarwood Elementary places 1st of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Briarwood Elementary's enrollment dropped from 663 in 2020-21 to 630 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 15.4:1 to 16.8:1.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Briarwood Elementary, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Issaquah School District
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Maywood Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 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
Other Briarwood Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Briarwood Elementary. Briarwood Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Briarwood Elementary SchoolBowling Green, KY · 685 students
- Briarwood ElemPrairie Village, KS · 674 students
- Briarwood Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 502 students
- Briarwood Elementary SchoolWARREN, MI · 347 students
- Briarwood ElemOlathe, KS · 315 students
Nearby schools
- Liberty Sr High School0.3 mi · 1,495
- Maywood Middle School0.8 mi · 826
- Apollo Elementary1.5 mi · 496
- Maplewood Heights Elementary School1.5 mi · 395
- Hazen Senior High School2.1 mi · 1,796
- Hilltop Heritage Elementary School2.3 mi · 576
Frequently asked questions
About Briarwood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Briarwood Elementary?
Briarwood Elementary enrolls approximately 630 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Briarwood Elementary serve?
Briarwood Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Briarwood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Briarwood Elementary is approximately 16.8:1 (37 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Briarwood Elementary?
Briarwood Elementary reports a student body of 39% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 37% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Briarwood Elementary public or private?
Briarwood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Issaquah School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.