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Enrollment
391
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423000660
Carl Sandburg Elementary
12801 - 84th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98034 · (425) 936-2700 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL391 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-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
15.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
34 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
77.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.9pp since 2014
Math
68.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.2% | 68.9% |
| 2023-24 | 72.9% | 70.0% |
| 2022-23 | 79.2% | 73.6% |
| 2021-22 | 73.4% | 60.4% |
| 2018-19 | 80.1% | 70.8% |
| 2017-18 | 79.8% | 80.3% |
| 2016-17 | 82.0% | 82.1% |
| 2015-16 | 85.7% | 82.8% |
| 2014-15 | 82.1% | 74.9% |
% 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
74.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Carl Sandburg Elementary
Carl Sandburg Elementary's state test result (74.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Sandburg Elementary this school | 391 | 8.7% | 74.1% |
| Totem Falls Snohomish | 412 | 10.9% | 71.4% |
| Wellington Elementary Woodinville | 380 | 12.9% | 75.5% |
| Wedgwood Elementary School SEATTLE | 333 | 12.3% | 83.7% |
| Bryant Elementary School SEATTLE | 470 | 5.3% | 80.4% |
| Frantz Coe Elementary School SEATTLE | 467 | 11.1% | 88.6% |
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 Carl Sandburg Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.1% | #98 of 936 | #76 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.9% | #137 of 1,103 ▼ 5 | #89 of 281 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #79 of 1,102 ▲ 42 | #62 of 280 ▲ 23 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.1pp | #209 of 928 | #50 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 391 | #669 of 1,268 | #187 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #440 of 1,085 | #102 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #475 of 1,088 | #208 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.7% | #1,132 of 1,169 | #259 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #429 of 778 | #136 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
391
-34 (-8%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 656
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 391 | 25.4 | 15.4:1 | 9% (34) |
| 2023-24 | 409 | 25.1 | 16.3:1 | 9% (38) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 25.5 | 16.7:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2020-21 | 425 | 27 | 15.7:1 | 5% (23) |
| 2017-18 | 460 | 25.1 | 18.4:1 | 5% (24) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | 26 | 18.6:1 | 8% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 502 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 8% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 539 | 26 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 656 | 29 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carl Sandburg Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (460 to 391); teachers up 1% (25.1 to 25.4).
About Carl Sandburg Elementary
The public elementary school Carl Sandburg Elementary is located in Kirkland, Washington. There are 391 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
Carl Sandburg Elementary is one of 55 schools in Lake Washington School District, which enrolls 30,986 students in total.
The student body at Carl Sandburg Elementary is 55% White. The school is also 16% Asian, 14% multiracial, and 10% Hispanic. Among King County residents, the White share is about 55%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
Carl Sandburg Elementary has 25.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average ratio is 17.3:1. The school has 9% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in King County is 29 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Carl Sandburg Elementary lands at A-, ahead of 76% of Washington public elementary schools.
Carl Sandburg Elementary's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (74.1%) and its predicted rate (74.4%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools.
For the population of King County, median household income comes to about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. King County's 544 public schools enroll about 278,492 students and include Carl Sandburg Elementary.
The closest school to Carl Sandburg Elementary is Discovery Community School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Carl Sandburg Elementary ranks 2nd of 7 nearby schools, at 74.1% versus a 64.1% average.
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.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 391, down from 425 in 2020-21.
This page collects posts and questions about Carl Sandburg Elementary, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Kirkland
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Kirkland Middle SchoolMiddle · 746 students
- Finn Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 664 students
- Lakeview ElementaryElementary · 602 students
- Peter Kirk ElementaryElementary · 592 students
Other Carl Sandburg Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 2 states are named Carl Sandburg Elementary. Carl Sandburg Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Carl Sandburg Elementary SchoolCharleston, IL · 555 students
- Carl Sandburg Elementary SchoolWheaton, IL · 402 students
- Carl Sandburg ElementaryJoliet, IL · 371 students
Nearby schools
- Discovery Community School0.0 mi · 71
- Finn Hill Middle School0.2 mi · 664
- Environmental & Adventure School0.2 mi · 138
- Henry David Thoreau Elementary0.6 mi · 404
- Juanita Elementary1.0 mi · 394
- Juanita High School1.5 mi · 1,778
Frequently asked questions
About Carl Sandburg ElementaryHow large is Carl Sandburg Elementary?
Carl Sandburg Elementary enrolls approximately 391 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Carl Sandburg Elementary serve?
Carl Sandburg Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Carl Sandburg Elementary have?
Carl Sandburg Elementary employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Carl Sandburg Elementary?
Student demographics at Carl Sandburg Elementary are roughly 55% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 16% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Carl Sandburg Elementary in?
Carl Sandburg Elementary is part of Lake Washington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.