Creekside Elementary

Creekside Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Sammamish, Washington, run under Issaquah School District. The school hosts 555 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Creekside Elementary sits 46% bigger than that benchmark.

Creekside Elementary is one of 30 schools operated by Issaquah School District, a district that teaches 19,098 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Creekside Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Asian (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% White, 11% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 21% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below King County's rate of about 38%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Creekside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.3%; this one delivers 79.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for King County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Creekside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Discovery Elementary, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Creekside Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Creekside Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 77.8%.

Creekside Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Creekside Elementary's enrollment has shrank 26% since 2018, when it stood at 752 (now 555). Over the same period, the White share fell from 55% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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