Enrollment
388
Elementary
DISTRICT 441 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIVERVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530456000714
Carnation Elementary School
4950 Tolt Ave, Carnation, WA 98014 · (425) 844-4550 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL388 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 40% of Washington public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
13.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
110 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 30 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Carnation Elementary School→Tolt Middle School
Based on grade levels within Riverview School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
55.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -15.4pp since 2014
Math
54.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -16.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 15 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 17 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.7% | 54.1% |
| 2023-24 | 58.7% | 56.4% |
| 2022-23 | 64.9% | 66.1% |
| 2021-22 | 65.8% | 59.5% |
| 2018-19 | 67.5% | 62.1% |
| 2017-18 | 68.2% | 61.7% |
| 2016-17 | 65.3% | 62.1% |
| 2015-16 | 76.8% | 71.0% |
| 2014-15 | 71.1% | 70.6% |
% 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
58.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Carnation Elementary School
Carnation Elementary School's state test result (58.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnation Elementary School this school | 388 | 28.4% | 58.0% |
| Westwood Elementary School Enumclaw | 409 | 27.6% | 62.6% |
| Cascade View Elementary Snohomish | 412 | 26.7% | 48.0% |
| Salmon Creek Elementary VANCOUVER | 409 | 30.3% | N/A |
| Illahee Elementary School Camas | 367 | 27.2% | N/A |
| Poulsbo Elementary School Poulsbo | 487 | 27.1% | 69.3% |
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 Carnation Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #289 of 936 | #141 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #362 of 1,103 ▼ 48 | #145 of 281 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #394 of 1,102 ▼ 70 | #147 of 280 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.7pp | #69 of 928 | #24 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 388 | #678 of 1,268 | #191 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #131 of 1,085 | #38 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.7% | #675 of 1,088 | #246 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.4% | #957 of 1,169 | #173 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.7% | #413 of 778 | #133 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
388
+72 (+23%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 463
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 388 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 28% (110) |
| 2023-24 | 376 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 24% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 364 | 26.7 | 13.7:1 | 22% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | 27 | 11.7:1 | 20% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 460 | 24.8 | 18.6:1 | 18% (82) |
| 2015-16 | 420 | 20 | 21.0:1 | 21% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 21 | 19.9:1 | 23% (97) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 21 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 463 | 26 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carnation Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (460 to 388); teachers up 13% (24.8 to 28).
About Carnation Elementary School
Carnation Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Carnation, Washington. It had 388 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
Riverview School District is the local district for Carnation Elementary School. It runs 7 schools with 2,996 students.
Of every 100 students at Carnation Elementary School, about 64 are White. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 8% multiracial. The White share of the county population is lower, at 55%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Carnation Elementary School scores 54%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Carnation Elementary School is 13.8:1, based on 28 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. Lunch program data show 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in King County average 38%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Carnation Elementary School outscored 40%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Washington with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 61.2%. Carnation Elementary School scores 58.0%.
In the wider King County area, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Carnation Elementary School shares King County with 543 other public schools.
Carnation Elementary School's nearest public school is PARADE (about 0.2 miles). There are 4 more public schools inside five miles. Carnation Elementary School places 6th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal data place Carnation Elementary School in the Rural: Fringe locale, which means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 72 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The school's ratio increased from 11.7:1 to 13.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Riverview School District
- Cedarcrest High SchoolHigh · 889 students
- Tolt Middle SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- Stillwater ElementaryElementary · 491 students
- Cherry Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- PARADECombined · 86 students
- CLIPHigh · 64 students
Other schools in Carnation
- Tolt Middle SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- Stillwater ElementaryElementary · 491 students
- PARADECombined · 86 students
- CLIPHigh · 64 students
- ChoiceHigh
Nearby schools
- PARADE0.2 mi · 86
- CLIP0.2 mi · 64
- Tolt Middle School0.6 mi · 633
- Stillwater Elementary3.4 mi · 491
- Cascade Ridge Elementary5.1 mi · 391
- Ella Baker Elementary School5.1 mi · 401
Frequently asked questions
About Carnation Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Carnation Elementary School?
Carnation Elementary School enrolls approximately 388 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Carnation Elementary School serve?
Carnation Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Carnation Elementary School have?
Carnation Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Carnation Elementary School?
Student demographics at Carnation Elementary School are roughly 64% White, 18% Hispanic, 0% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Carnation Elementary School?
Carnation Elementary School is overseen by Riverview School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.