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Enrollment
434
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530723001067
Cascade Elementary School
16022 116th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058 · (425) 204-3350 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL434 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
277 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 81 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
39.6%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.0pp since 2014
Math
34.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.6% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.1% | 39.4% |
| 2022-23 | 39.3% | 30.8% |
| 2021-22 | 31.7% | 26.7% |
| 2018-19 | 41.5% | 37.7% |
| 2017-18 | 46.1% | 37.6% |
| 2016-17 | 38.0% | 34.9% |
| 2015-16 | 39.0% | 38.1% |
| 2014-15 | 38.5% | 40.7% |
% 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
38.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Cascade Elementary School
Cascade Elementary School's state test result (38.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade Elementary School this school | 434 | 63.8% | 38.8% |
| Bryn Mawr Elementary School Seattle | 415 | 62.2% | 34.1% |
| Enterprise Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 450 | 67.8% | 32.2% |
| Lake Hills Elementary Bellevue | 498 | 66.3% | 36.9% |
| Des Moines Elementary Des Moines | 500 | 62.6% | 37.1% |
| Tukwila Elementary TUKWILA | 458 | 71.4% | 39.9% |
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 Cascade Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #652 of 936 | #205 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #799 of 1,103 ▼ 158 | #220 of 281 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #762 of 1,102 ▼ 39 | #211 of 280 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.6pp | #151 of 928 | #33 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 434 | #505 of 1,268 | #139 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #498 of 1,085 | #116 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 79.1% | #40 of 1,088 | #22 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.8% | #375 of 1,169 | #72 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.0% | #353 of 778 | #114 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
434
+29 (+7%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 522
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 434 | 27.8 | 15.6:1 | 64% (277) |
| 2023-24 | 438 | 29.3 | 15.0:1 | 63% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 433 | 28 | 15.4:1 | 61% (264) |
| 2020-21 | 405 | 27 | 15.0:1 | 59% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 529 | 32.4 | 16.4:1 | 62% (330) |
| 2015-16 | 558 | 36 | 15.5:1 | 67% (372) |
| 2010-11 | 521 | 27 | 19.3:1 | 64% (332) |
| 2000-01 | 540 | 24 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 522 | 22 | 23.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cascade Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (529 to 434); teachers down 14% (32.4 to 27.8).
About Cascade Elementary School
Cascade Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school based in Renton, Washington. It educates 434 students in kindergarten through 5.
Across its 29 schools, Renton School District enrolls 14,873 students. Cascade Elementary School is one of those schools.
Hispanic students form the largest group at Cascade Elementary School, 31% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 20% Black, 17% Asian, 17% White, and 12% multiracial. Among people living in King County, the Hispanic share is about 11%. The chance that two students picked at random at Cascade Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 79%.
The school reports 27.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.6 students per teacher. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is higher than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 64%. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in King County is 26 points.
Test results at Cascade Elementary School are 1.4 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (38.8% actual, 37.4% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for King County show that median household income is about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 544 public schools in King County, with a combined enrollment of about 278,492.
Tiffany Park Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.5 miles away in a straight line. Cascade Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Cascade Elementary School comes in 2nd of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Cascade Elementary School as City: Mid-size.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Cascade Elementary School went from 405 students to 434.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Renton School District
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Lindbergh Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,201 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- McKnight Middle SchoolMiddle · 811 students
- Vera Risdon Middle SchoolMiddle · 751 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
Other Cascade Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 6 states are named Cascade Elementary. Cascade Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 9.
- Cascade ElementaryEast Wenatchee, WA · 568 students
- Cascade Elementary SchoolKENNEWICK, WA · 509 students
- Cascade ElementaryMarysville, WA · 382 students
- Cascade ElementaryWartrace, TN · 621 students
- Cascade Elementary SchoolAtlanta, GA · 314 students
Nearby schools
- Tiffany Park Elementary School0.5 mi · 379
- Impact | Black River Elementary0.6 mi · 209
- H.O.M.E. Program0.6 mi · 136
- Open Door Youth Reengagement0.6 mi · 50
- Renton Academy0.6 mi · 24
- Nelsen Middle School0.6 mi · 913
Frequently asked questions
About Cascade Elementary SchoolHow large is Cascade Elementary School?
Cascade Elementary School enrolls approximately 434 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Cascade Elementary School serve?
Cascade Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cascade Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cascade Elementary School is approximately 15.6:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Cascade Elementary School?
Cascade Elementary School reports a student body of 17% White, 31% Hispanic, 20% Black, 17% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Cascade Elementary School?
Cascade Elementary School is overseen by Renton School District in King County.
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