Carriage Crest Elementary School

Carriage Crest Elementary School is a primary school of average-sized scale in Renton, Washington, run under Kent School District, hosting 324 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Kent School District comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,358 students; Carriage Crest Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Carriage Crest Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Asian (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 30% White, 20% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 21% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 33% of students at Carriage Crest Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Carriage Crest Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of -6.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for King County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Carriage Crest Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Lake Youngs Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carriage Crest Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 32%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 47% to 30% over that span.

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