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Enrollment
350
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375002214
Challenger Elementary
25200 SE KLAHANIE BLVD, ISSAQUAH, WA 98029 · (425) 837-7550 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL350 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
59 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 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
70%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
69.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -11.9pp since 2014
Math
71.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -4.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.7% | 71.4% |
| 2023-24 | 70.9% | 70.5% |
| 2022-23 | 74.6% | 73.2% |
| 2021-22 | 77.8% | 75.1% |
| 2018-19 | 70.7% | 70.2% |
| 2017-18 | 77.0% | 73.9% |
| 2016-17 | 75.6% | 71.5% |
| 2015-16 | 75.1% | 73.7% |
| 2014-15 | 81.6% | 76.3% |
% 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
71.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Challenger Elementary
Challenger Elementary's state test result (71.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Challenger Elementary this school | 350 | 16.9% | 71.9% |
| Emily Dickinson Elementary Redmond | 294 | 13.3% | 73.7% |
| Cedar Trails Elementary Sammamish | 374 | 15.5% | 75.7% |
| Newcastle Elementary School Newcastle | 451 | 21.7% | 79.7% |
| Ridgewood Elementary School Renton | 412 | 21.6% | 67.9% |
| Cougar Ridge Elementary BELLEVUE | 458 | 10.7% | 82.0% |
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 Challenger Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #117 of 936 | #85 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #113 of 1,103 ▲ 12 | #75 of 281 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #160 of 1,102 ▼ 18 | #93 of 280 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.9pp | #122 of 928 | #41 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 350 | #798 of 1,268 | #216 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #37 of 1,085 | #16 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.2% | #283 of 1,088 | #149 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.9% | #1,065 of 1,169 | #214 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -43.5% | #19 of 778 | #13 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
350
-162 (-32%) vs 2020
-58% since 1990-91, when it was 831
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 350 | 28.2 | 12.4:1 | 17% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 27.3 | 14.5:1 | 18% (71) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 29.3 | 14.4:1 | 19% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 512 | 39 | 13.1:1 | 7% (38) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 36.3 | 17.1:1 | 6% (39) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 33 | 17.7:1 | 5% (28) |
| 2010-11 | 499 | 27 | 18.5:1 | 7% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 718 | 34 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 831 | 39 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Challenger Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 43% (619 to 350); teachers down 22% (36.3 to 28.2).
About Challenger Elementary
Challenger Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in ISSAQUAH, Washington. It had 350 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5.
The 30 schools in Issaquah School District enroll 19,098 students altogether, Challenger Elementary among them.
Of every 100 students at Challenger Elementary, about 41 are Asian, the largest group. The school is also 31% White, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 4% Black. That is higher than the 21% Asian share among all King County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 70%.
There are about 12.4 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Challenger Elementary, which has 28.2. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 17%. That is lower than the 38% average for public schools in King County.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Challenger Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Washington schools: 71.9% actual against 68.9% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for King County show that the median household earns about $124,746 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Across King County, 544 public schools serve about 278,492 students.
About 0.2 miles separate Challenger Elementary from the closest public school, Beaver Lake Middle School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Challenger Elementary ranks 9th of 9 on average proficiency.
Federal data place Challenger Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 32% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
The allk12 page for Challenger Elementary lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 ISSAQUAH
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
- Beaver Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 699 students
- Issaquah Valley ElementaryElementary · 646 students
- Cougar Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 616 students
- Pacific Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 605 students
Other Challenger Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 7 states are named Challenger Elementary. Challenger Elementary is the 9th largest of the 9.
- Challenger ElementaryEverett, WA · 658 students
- CHALLENGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMARAC, FL · 830 students
- CHALLENGER ELEMENTARYTHIEF RIVER FALLS, MN · 727 students
- Challenger Elementary SchoolPEARLAND, TX · 614 students
- Challenger Elementary SchoolHuntsville, AL · 491 students
Nearby schools
- Beaver Lake Middle School0.2 mi · 699
- Endeavour Elementary School0.9 mi · 473
- Sunny Hills Elementary1.1 mi · 574
- Pacific Cascade Middle School1.3 mi · 605
- Cedar Trails Elementary1.3 mi · 374
- Pine Lake Middle School1.3 mi · 877
Frequently asked questions
About Challenger ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Challenger Elementary?
Challenger Elementary enrolls approximately 350 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Challenger Elementary serve?
Challenger Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Challenger Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Challenger Elementary is approximately 12.4:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Challenger Elementary?
At Challenger Elementary, the student body is approximately 31% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 41% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Challenger Elementary?
Challenger 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.