Cedar Trails Elementary

Cedar Trails Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary schools in Sammamish, Washington, part of Issaquah School District, with 374 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Issaquah School District, which oversees 30 schools and 19,098 students, Cedar Trails Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cedar Trails Elementary records that the largest single group is Asian at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 33% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 21% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at Cedar Trails Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cedar Trails Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.8%, the actual is 75.7%, a residual of +5.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for King County put the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Cedar Trails Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Sunny Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cedar Trails Elementary. On composite proficiency, Cedar Trails Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 79.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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