Carnation Elementary School

Carnation Elementary School is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in Carnation, Washington, run under Riverview School District, educateing 388 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 7 schools in Riverview School District (2,996 students total), Carnation Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carnation Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Carnation Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carnation Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for King County put median household income runs about $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%. Carnation Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Nearest neighbor: PARADE, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carnation Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 77.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Carnation Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 388). The White share of enrollment edged down from 79% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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