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If you could change one rule at Cedarhurst Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530354000523
Cedarhurst Elementary
611 S 132nd St, Burien, WA 98168 · (206) 631-3600 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% of Washington public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
18.9:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
279 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
23.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -22.0pp since 2014
Math
28.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -20.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 22 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 21 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.2% | 28.6% |
| 2023-24 | 27.1% | 25.1% |
| 2022-23 | 24.4% | 21.2% |
| 2021-22 | 24.0% | 21.2% |
| 2018-19 | 32.5% | 26.1% |
| 2017-18 | 35.2% | 32.1% |
| 2016-17 | 33.6% | 33.0% |
| 2015-16 | 33.6% | 37.0% |
| 2014-15 | 45.2% | 49.4% |
% 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
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Cedarhurst Elementary
Cedarhurst Elementary's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedarhurst Elementary this school | 399 | 69.9% | 26.5% |
| Blix Elementary School Tacoma | 442 | 71.9% | 29.0% |
| Highlands Elementary School Renton | 386 | 70.2% | 25.6% |
| Scenic Hill Elementary School Kent | 481 | 73.8% | 31.4% |
| Seahurst Elementary School Burien | 405 | 69.6% | 24.2% |
| Gildo Rey Elementary School AUBURN | 416 | 72.6% | 36.3% |
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 Cedarhurst Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #855 of 936 | #256 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #901 of 1,103 ▲ 56 | #240 of 281 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #1,043 of 1,102 ▼ 60 | #269 of 280 ▼ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.3pp | #357 of 928 | #90 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #641 of 1,268 | #175 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #1,033 of 1,085 | #265 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.3% | #330 of 1,088 | #166 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.9% | #261 of 1,169 | #51 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.4% | #70 of 778 | #30 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
399
-21 (-5%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 408
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 399 | 21.1 | 18.9:1 | 70% (279) |
| 2023-24 | 396 | 21.2 | 18.7:1 | 75% (298) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 20.6 | 20.4:1 | 71% (297) |
| 2020-21 | 420 | 25 | 16.8:1 | 75% (317) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 33.1 | 18.4:1 | 74% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 615 | 33 | 18.6:1 | 82% (502) |
| 2010-11 | 613 | 31 | 19.8:1 | 56% (343) |
| 2000-01 | 356 | 17 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 408 | 19 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedarhurst Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (608 to 399); teachers down 36% (33.1 to 21.1).
About Cedarhurst Elementary
Cedarhurst Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Burien, Washington, one of the schools in Highline School District. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 399 students in 2024-25.
Highline School District runs Cedarhurst Elementary along with 35 other schools, enrolling 18,072 students in total.
Hispanic students are 51% of those enrolled at Cedarhurst Elementary. Next come 15% White, 15% Asian, 8% Black, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 11% Hispanic among all King County residents. A diversity index of 68% means there is a 68% chance two randomly chosen students at Cedarhurst Elementary are from different groups.
Staffing at Cedarhurst Elementary comes to 21.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.9:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1. Cedarhurst Elementary counts 70% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 38% average for public schools in King County is 32 points lower.
Cedarhurst Elementary holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 7% of Washington public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 26.5%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 33.3%.
In King County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 544 public schools in the county, enrolling about 278,492, Cedarhurst Elementary among them.
About 0.7 miles separate Cedarhurst Elementary from the closest public school, Hazel Valley Elementary. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Cedarhurst Elementary's average proficiency of 26.5% compares with 19.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, Cedarhurst Elementary is Suburb: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 399, down from 420 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 18.9:1, from 16.8:1.
Cedarhurst Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Highline School District
- Mount Rainier High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Evergreen High SchoolHigh · 1,080 students
- Glacier Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 671 students
- Tyee High SchoolHigh · 644 students
Other schools in Burien
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Sylvester Middle SchoolMiddle · 582 students
- Gregory Heights ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Hazel Valley ElementaryElementary · 469 students
- Seahurst Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Shorewood ElementaryElementary · 400 students
Nearby schools
- Hazel Valley Elementary0.7 mi · 469
- Highline Public Schools Virtual Academy1.1 mi · 208
- Highline Open Doors 14181.2 mi · 240
- Highline High School1.3 mi · 1,423
- Glacier Middle School1.3 mi · 803
- Hilltop Elementary1.3 mi · 519
Frequently asked questions
About Cedarhurst ElementaryHow many students attend Cedarhurst Elementary?
Cedarhurst Elementary enrolls approximately 399 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cedarhurst Elementary serve?
Cedarhurst Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cedarhurst Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cedarhurst Elementary is approximately 18.9:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cedarhurst Elementary?
At Cedarhurst Elementary, the student body is approximately 15% White, 51% Hispanic, 8% Black, 15% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Cedarhurst Elementary in?
Cedarhurst Elementary is part of Highline School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.