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What's one thing Byron Kibler Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
442
Elementary
DISTRICT 364 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ENUMCLAW SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530000100377
Byron Kibler Elementary School
2057 Kibler Ave, Enumclaw, WA 98022 · (360) 272-5421 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL442 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
155 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 | 82 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
51.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +5.1pp since 2014
Math
44.4%
WA avg 51.2% . +1.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.9% | 44.4% |
| 2023-24 | 50.9% | 54.1% |
| 2022-23 | 55.2% | 49.5% |
| 2021-22 | 51.3% | 42.0% |
| 2018-19 | 59.1% | 49.6% |
| 2017-18 | 59.5% | 48.7% |
| 2016-17 | 50.9% | 46.9% |
| 2015-16 | 51.5% | 47.5% |
| 2014-15 | 46.8% | 43.4% |
% 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
51.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Byron Kibler Elementary School
Byron Kibler Elementary School's state test result (51.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byron Kibler Elementary School this school | 442 | 35.1% | 51.1% |
| Valley View Elementary School Ellensburg | 408 | 37.3% | 59.5% |
| Sunrise Elementary Enumclaw | 382 | 36.4% | 49.9% |
| Island View Elementary Anacortes | 453 | 34.0% | 62.2% |
| Chautauqua Elementary VASHON | 480 | 35.0% | 59.3% |
| Twin City Elementary STANWOOD | 440 | 34.1% | 57.5% |
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 Byron Kibler Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #409 of 936 | #163 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #546 of 1,103 ▼ 187 | #179 of 281 ▼ 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #468 of 1,102 ▲ 8 | #157 of 280 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.5pp | #463 of 928 | #123 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 442 | #474 of 1,268 | #133 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #752 of 1,085 | #197 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.0% | #888 of 1,088 | #279 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.1% | #868 of 1,169 | #149 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #573 of 778 | #176 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
442
+41 (+10%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 551
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
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 | 442 | 26.5 | 16.7:1 | 35% (155) |
| 2023-24 | 431 | 26.3 | 16.4:1 | 38% (163) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 26.3 | 16.5:1 | 41% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 26 | 15.4:1 | 39% (158) |
| 2017-18 | 488 | 24.2 | 20.2:1 | 37% (182) |
| 2015-16 | 425 | 23 | 18.5:1 | 41% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 414 | 20 | 20.7:1 | 37% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 533 | 27 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 551 | 26 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Byron Kibler Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (488 to 442); teachers up 9% (24.2 to 26.5).
About Byron Kibler Elementary School
Families in Enumclaw, Washington, are served by Byron Kibler Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school's 442 students are in kindergarten through 5.
Enumclaw School District serves 4,564 students across 10 schools.
At 73%, White students outnumber all other groups at Byron Kibler Elementary School combined. Other students are 20% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. By comparison, King County residents are about 55% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Byron Kibler Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 42%.
The count of teachers at Byron Kibler Elementary School is 26.5 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 16.7:1. Elementary schools in Washington average about 17.3:1, a similar figure. Around 35% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 38% average for public schools in King County.
Test results at Byron Kibler Elementary School are 5.6 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (51.1% actual, 56.7% predicted).
Census estimates describe King County this way: median household income is about $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 544 public schools in King County, with a combined enrollment of about 278,492.
The closest public school to Byron Kibler Elementary School is JJ Smith Elementary, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of Byron Kibler Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Byron Kibler Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
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.
The number of students climbed from 401 to 442 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 16.7:1, from 15.4:1.
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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 Enumclaw School District
- Enumclaw Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Enumclaw Middle SchoolMiddle · 522 students
- Thunder Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 506 students
- Black Diamond ElementaryElementary · 414 students
- Westwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
- Sunrise ElementaryElementary · 382 students
Other schools in Enumclaw
- Enumclaw Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Enumclaw Middle SchoolMiddle · 522 students
- Thunder Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 506 students
- Westwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
- Sunrise ElementaryElementary · 382 students
- Southwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
Nearby schools
- JJ Smith Elementary0.3 mi · 176
- Thunder Mountain Middle School0.9 mi · 506
- Enumclaw Sr High School1.5 mi · 1,333
- Special Ed School1.6 mi · 22
- Enumclaw Middle School1.7 mi · 522
- Southwood Elementary School1.8 mi · 358
Frequently asked questions
About Byron Kibler Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Byron Kibler Elementary School?
Byron Kibler Elementary School enrolls approximately 442 students in grades KG-05.
Is Byron Kibler Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Byron Kibler Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Byron Kibler Elementary School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Byron Kibler Elementary School.
How diverse is Byron Kibler Elementary School?
Byron Kibler Elementary School reports a student body of 73% White, 20% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Byron Kibler Elementary School?
Byron Kibler Elementary School is overseen by Enumclaw School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.