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Enrollment
391
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375002881
Cascade Ridge Elementary
2020 TROSSACHS BLVD SE, SAMMAMISH, WA 98075 · (425) 837-5500 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL391 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Washington public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-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
16.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
4%
15 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 43% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
93.1%
WA avg 58.4% . +3.8pp since 2014
Math
92.2%
WA avg 51.2% . +3.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.1% | 92.2% |
| 2023-24 | 87.2% | 91.0% |
| 2022-23 | 86.9% | 91.1% |
| 2021-22 | 89.6% | 87.1% |
| 2018-19 | 84.6% | 85.0% |
| 2017-18 | 86.8% | 84.8% |
| 2016-17 | 87.4% | 86.5% |
| 2015-16 | 88.2% | 89.4% |
| 2014-15 | 89.3% | 88.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
91.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
77.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 78% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 13 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Ridge Elementary
Cascade Ridge Elementary's state test result (91.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade Ridge Elementary this school | 391 | 3.8% | 91.1% |
| Rosa Parks Elementary Redmond | 450 | 5.8% | 84.4% |
| Horace Mann Elementary Redmond | 387 | 5.9% | 85.2% |
| Christa Mcauliffe Elementary Sammamish | 472 | 1.5% | 92.1% |
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary Kirkland | 452 | 10.0% | 80.7% |
| Rachel Carson Elementary Sammamish | 486 | 2.5% | 85.7% |
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 Ridge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.1% | #6 of 936 | #6 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 92.2% | #6 of 1,103 ▲ 1 | #6 of 281 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.1% | #3 of 1,102 ▲ 11 | #3 of 280 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.3pp | #299 of 928 | #73 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 391 | #668 of 1,268 | #186 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #711 of 1,085 | #183 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #527 of 1,088 | #224 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.8% | #1,163 of 1,169 | #286 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.1% | #209 of 778 | #76 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
391
-54 (-12%) vs 2020
-31% since 2010-11, when it was 563
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 391 | 23.6 | 16.6:1 | 4% (15) |
| 2023-24 | 407 | 25.3 | 16.1:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2022-23 | 410 | 23.3 | 17.6:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2020-21 | 445 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 30.2 | 17.1:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2015-16 | 542 | 31 | 17.5:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2010-11 | 563 | 29 | 19.4:1 | 2% (9) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cascade Ridge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (515 to 391); teachers down 22% (30.2 to 23.6).
About Cascade Ridge Elementary
The public elementary school Cascade Ridge Elementary is located in SAMMAMISH, Washington. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 391 students.
Issaquah School District counts 30 schools and 19,098 students, including Cascade Ridge Elementary.
About 57% of the student body at Cascade Ridge Elementary is Asian. Enrollment also includes 24% White, 10% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Among people living in King County, the Asian share is about 21%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 60, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Cascade Ridge Elementary, there are about 16.6 students; the school has 23.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 4%. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in King County, the school's rate is lower.
Cascade Ridge Elementary earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 99% of Washington public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places Cascade Ridge Elementary in the top 10% of Washington schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 13.5 points above it (91.1% actual, 77.6% predicted).
For King County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 544 public schools and about 278,492 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Endeavour Elementary School, is about 1.6 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Cascade Ridge Elementary places 1st out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The federal government classifies Cascade Ridge Elementary's location as Suburb: Large.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 445 (2020-21) to 391 (2024-25).
On allk12, people connected to Cascade Ridge Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Issaquah School District
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Maywood Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
Other schools in SAMMAMISH
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Margaret Mead ElementaryElementary · 580 students
- Sunny Hills ElementaryElementary · 574 students
Nearby schools
- Endeavour Elementary School1.6 mi · 473
- Beaver Lake Middle School1.7 mi · 699
- Challenger Elementary1.7 mi · 350
- Sunny Hills Elementary2.6 mi · 574
- Rachel Carson Elementary2.8 mi · 486
- Inglewood Middle School2.8 mi · 1,229
Frequently asked questions
About Cascade Ridge ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Cascade Ridge Elementary?
Cascade Ridge Elementary enrolls approximately 391 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Cascade Ridge Elementary serve?
Cascade Ridge Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Cascade Ridge Elementary?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at Cascade Ridge Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cascade Ridge Elementary?
At Cascade Ridge Elementary, the student body is approximately 24% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 57% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Cascade Ridge Elementary?
Cascade Ridge Elementary is overseen by Issaquah School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.