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Best kept secret at Carriage Crest Elementary School?
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Enrollment
324
Elementary
DISTRICT 397 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530396002308
Carriage Crest Elementary School
18235 140th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058 · (253) 373-7597 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL324 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
106 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 2 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 22% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
47.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -18.7pp since 2014
Math
46.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -16.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 19 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 16 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.2% | 46.9% |
| 2023-24 | 51.9% | 52.5% |
| 2022-23 | 57.2% | 51.5% |
| 2021-22 | 58.3% | 49.2% |
| 2018-19 | 67.7% | 57.4% |
| 2017-18 | 70.0% | 63.9% |
| 2016-17 | 71.3% | 64.3% |
| 2015-16 | 75.8% | 63.5% |
| 2014-15 | 65.9% | 63.3% |
% 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
51.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Carriage Crest Elementary School
Carriage Crest Elementary School's state test result (51.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carriage Crest Elementary School this school | 324 | 32.7% | 51.6% |
| John Muir Elementary Kirkland | 321 | 30.5% | 61.5% |
| Lake Youngs Elementary School Kent | 416 | 33.9% | 65.7% |
| Phantom Lake Elementary Bellevue | 430 | 35.1% | 65.3% |
| Crystal Springs Elementary Bothell | 500 | 35.0% | 61.8% |
| Endeavour Elementary Mukilteo | 436 | 24.1% | 63.5% |
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 Carriage Crest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #400 of 936 | #159 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #494 of 1,103 ▼ 105 | #171 of 281 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #574 of 1,102 ▼ 118 | #177 of 280 ▼ 19 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.7pp | #98 of 928 | #31 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 324 | #882 of 1,268 | #234 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #889 of 1,085 | #230 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.1% | #113 of 1,088 | #63 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.7% | #902 of 1,169 | #159 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.2% | #85 of 778 | #36 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
324
-136 (-30%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 548
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 324 | 18.7 | 17.4:1 | 33% (106) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 20.3 | 16.0:1 | 35% (113) |
| 2022-23 | 409 | 30.3 | 13.5:1 | 31% (128) |
| 2020-21 | 460 | 30 | 15.3:1 | 24% (110) |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 28.1 | 17.0:1 | 23% (110) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 23 | 18.4:1 | 25% (106) |
| 2010-11 | 463 | 24 | 19.3:1 | 19% (87) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 26 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 548 | 25 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carriage Crest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (478 to 324); teachers down 34% (28.1 to 18.7).
About Carriage Crest Elementary School
In Renton, Washington, Carriage Crest Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. It has an enrollment of 324 students in pre-K through 5.
Carriage Crest Elementary School is part of a district of 44 schools: Kent School District, with 25,358 students.
Asian students make up 30% of enrollment at Carriage Crest Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% White, 20% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 7% Black. In King County overall, about 21% of residents are Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 76, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 18.7 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 17.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 17.3:1. Roughly 33% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
After adjusting for student poverty, Carriage Crest Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 51.6%; the prediction is 58.3%.
In King County, home to about 2,287,171 people, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Carriage Crest Elementary School shares King County with 543 other public schools.
Lake Youngs Elementary School is about 0.9 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Carriage Crest Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Carriage Crest Elementary School ranks 2nd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 51.6% against a local average of 40.1%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 324 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 460. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.3:1 to 17.4:1 over the same years.
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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 Kent School District
- Kentridge High SchoolHigh · 2,186 students
- Kentwood High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Kent-Meridian High SchoolHigh · 1,639 students
- Kentlake High SchoolHigh · 1,561 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
- Cedar Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 876 students
Other schools in Renton
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Lindbergh Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,201 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
Nearby schools
- Lake Youngs Elementary School0.9 mi · 416
- Meeker Middle School0.9 mi · 779
- Renton Park Elementary School1.1 mi · 393
- Lindbergh Senior High School1.3 mi · 1,201
- Fairwood Elementary School1.3 mi · 355
- Glenridge Elementary1.4 mi · 298
Frequently asked questions
About Carriage Crest Elementary SchoolHow large is Carriage Crest Elementary School?
Carriage Crest Elementary School enrolls approximately 324 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Carriage Crest Elementary School serve?
Carriage Crest Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Carriage Crest Elementary School?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at Carriage Crest Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Carriage Crest Elementary School?
Student demographics at Carriage Crest Elementary School are roughly 30% White, 20% Hispanic, 7% Black, 30% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Carriage Crest Elementary School public or private?
Carriage Crest Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kent School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.