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Which teacher or staff member at Christa Mcauliffe Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
472
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423002311
Christa Mcauliffe Elementary
23823 NE 22nd, Sammamish, WA 98074 · (425) 936-2620 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL472 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.
- A-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
17.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
7 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 24% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 48% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
93.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +5.9pp since 2014
Math
93.4%
WA avg 51.2% . +8.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.7% | 93.4% |
| 2023-24 | 91.6% | 92.6% |
| 2022-23 | 91.0% | 91.1% |
| 2021-22 | 86.1% | 87.2% |
| 2018-19 | 88.4% | 85.8% |
| 2017-18 | 89.7% | 87.4% |
| 2016-17 | 87.7% | 86.2% |
| 2015-16 | 89.9% | 85.8% |
| 2014-15 | 87.8% | 84.7% |
% 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
92.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 79% 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 Christa Mcauliffe Elementary
Christa Mcauliffe Elementary's state test result (92.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christa Mcauliffe Elementary this school | 472 | 1.5% | 92.1% |
| Rachel Carson Elementary Sammamish | 486 | 2.5% | 85.7% |
| Rosa Parks Elementary Redmond | 450 | 5.8% | 84.4% |
| Cascade Ridge Elementary SAMMAMISH | 391 | 3.8% | 91.1% |
| Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary Sammamish | 478 | 5.2% | 81.5% |
| Discovery Elementary ISSAQUAH | 508 | 4.9% | 85.0% |
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 Christa Mcauliffe Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.1% | #3 of 936 | #3 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.4% | #4 of 1,103 ▲ 1 | #4 of 281 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.7% | #2 of 1,102 ▲ 2 | #2 of 280 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.9pp | #184 of 928 | #45 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 472 | #376 of 1,268 | #102 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #852 of 1,085 | #221 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #581 of 1,088 | #233 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 1.5% | #1,169 of 1,169 | #292 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.6% | #680 of 778 | #195 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
472
-116 (-20%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 566
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
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 | 472 | 27.5 | 17.1:1 | 1% (7) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 30.1 | 16.0:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2020-21 | 588 | 35 | 16.8:1 | 2% (10) |
| 2017-18 | 495 | 30.8 | 16.1:1 | 4% (19) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 28 | 18.4:1 | 4% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 535 | 27 | 19.8:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2000-01 | 669 | 29 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 566 | 25 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Christa Mcauliffe Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (495 to 472); teachers down 11% (30.8 to 27.5).
About Christa Mcauliffe Elementary
Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Sammamish, Washington. The school enrolls 472 students in kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Within Lake Washington School District, Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is one of 55 schools. The district enrolls 30,986 students.
More than half of enrollment at Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is Asian: 58%. The next largest groups are 28% White, 8% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. The school's Asian share is 37 points above the 21% share among King County residents. The diversity index for Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at Christa Mcauliffe Elementary, there are about 17.1 students; the school has 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 17.3:1. There are 7 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 1% of enrollment. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Christa Mcauliffe Elementary outscored 99%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school in Washington with Christa Mcauliffe Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 79.2%. Christa Mcauliffe Elementary scores 92.1%.
The county, King County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Christa Mcauliffe Elementary.
Samantha Smith Elementary, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Christa Mcauliffe Elementary places 1st out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, Christa Mcauliffe Elementary enrolled 588 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 472.
The Christa Mcauliffe Elementary discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. 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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 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
Other Christa Mcauliffe Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Christa Mcauliffe Elementary. Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is the 4th largest of the 7.
- CHRISTA MCAULIFFE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPALM BAY, FL · 687 students
- Christa McAuliffe ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 524 students
- Christa McAuliffe ElementaryOxnard, CA · 476 students
- Christa McAuliffe ElementaryHASTINGS, MN · 470 students
- Christa McAuliffe ElementaryOceanside, CA · 461 students
Nearby schools
- Samantha Smith Elementary0.6 mi · 545
- Rachel Carson Elementary0.7 mi · 486
- Inglewood Middle School0.7 mi · 1,229
- Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning1.2 mi · 80
- Eastlake High School1.2 mi · 2,481
- Louisa May Alcott Elementary1.5 mi · 615
Frequently asked questions
About Christa Mcauliffe ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Christa Mcauliffe Elementary?
Christa Mcauliffe Elementary enrolls approximately 472 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Christa Mcauliffe Elementary serve?
Christa Mcauliffe Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Christa Mcauliffe Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is approximately 17.1:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Christa Mcauliffe Elementary?
At Christa Mcauliffe Elementary, the student body is approximately 28% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 58% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Christa Mcauliffe Elementary public or private?
Christa Mcauliffe Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Washington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.