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Bryant Elementary School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bryant Elementary School
Located at 3311 NE 60 ST, in SEATTLE, Washington, Bryant Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school that hosts 470 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Seattle School District No. 1. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Bryant Elementary School sits 24% larger than that benchmark.
Seattle School District No. 1 comprises 107 schools with combined enrollment of 50,773 students; Bryant Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Bryant Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest looks like 15% multiracial, 14% Asian, 7% Hispanic.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 5% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below King County's rate of about 38%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bryant Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.6%, the actual is 80.4%, a residual of +3.8 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for King County shows median household income runs about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Bryant Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Eckstein Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bryant Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bryant Elementary School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 68.2%.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
Over the past 7-year window. Bryant Elementary School's enrollment has declined 20% since 2018, when it stood at 585 (now 470). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 74% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for Bryant Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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