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Enrollment
555
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375003331
Creekside Elementary
20777 SE 16th St, Sammamish, WA 98075 · (425) 837-5200 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL555 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
32 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 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
64%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
80.3%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.3pp since 2014
Math
77.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.3% | 77.6% |
| 2023-24 | 77.4% | 79.4% |
| 2022-23 | 84.9% | 86.0% |
| 2021-22 | 80.4% | 81.3% |
| 2018-19 | 79.2% | 81.9% |
| 2017-18 | 80.3% | 82.1% |
| 2016-17 | 78.5% | 79.3% |
| 2015-16 | 79.5% | 75.6% |
| 2014-15 | 80.0% | 78.4% |
% 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
79.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Creekside Elementary
Creekside Elementary's state test result (79.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creekside Elementary this school | 555 | 5.8% | 79.4% |
| Margaret Mead Elementary Sammamish | 580 | 4.8% | 79.4% |
| Bennett Elementary School Bellevue | 513 | 7.8% | 75.7% |
| Endeavour Elementary School ISSAQUAH | 473 | 10.4% | 87.6% |
| Grand Ridge Elementary Issaquah | 558 | 8.6% | 82.9% |
| 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 Creekside Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.4% | #55 of 936 | #44 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.6% | #64 of 1,103 ▼ 17 | #49 of 281 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #52 of 1,102 ▲ 26 | #42 of 280 ▲ 21 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.9pp | #284 of 928 | #91 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 555 | #161 of 1,268 | #39 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #819 of 1,085 | #212 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #429 of 1,088 | #196 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.8% | #1,153 of 1,169 | #277 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #173 of 778 | #64 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
555
-131 (-19%) vs 2020
-6% since 2010-11, when it was 590
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 555 | 32.7 | 17.0:1 | 6% (32) |
| 2023-24 | 581 | 34.8 | 16.7:1 | 4% (26) |
| 2022-23 | 634 | 40.5 | 15.6:1 | 3% (17) |
| 2020-21 | 686 | 41 | 16.7:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2017-18 | 752 | 41 | 18.3:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2015-16 | 716 | 35 | 20.5:1 | 3% (18) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | 29 | 20.3:1 | 4% (21) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Creekside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (752 to 555); teachers down 20% (41 to 32.7).
About Creekside Elementary
Located in Sammamish, Washington, Creekside Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 555 students in kindergarten through 5. The school is 46% above the average for elementary schools in Washington.
Creekside Elementary falls under Issaquah School District, which has 30 schools enrolling 19,098 students.
The biggest share of students at Creekside Elementary, 45%, is Asian. The remaining shares are 37% White, 11% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Asian share of King County's population at about 21%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Creekside Elementary scores 64%.
Its staff includes 32.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 17.0 students per teacher. That is in line with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Roughly 6% of students at Creekside Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
Creekside Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 79.4% and a predicted 76.3%.
In King County, home to about 2,287,171 people, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Creekside Elementary shares King County with 543 other public schools.
Discovery Elementary is the nearest public school to Creekside Elementary, about 1.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Creekside Elementary ranks 4th on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 19% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The discussion board for Creekside Elementary is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 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 Creekside Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 14 states are named Creekside Elementary. Creekside Elementary is the 9th largest of the 27.
- Creekside Elementary SchoolMead, WA · 355 students
- Creekside Elementary SchoolFranklin, TN · 780 students
- Creekside ElementarySuffolk, VA · 764 students
- Creekside ElementaryWinterville, NC · 622 students
- Creekside ElementaryMoreno Valley, CA · 612 students
Nearby schools
- Discovery Elementary1.4 mi · 508
- Skyline High School1.5 mi · 2,244
- Pine Lake Middle School1.8 mi · 877
- Sunny Hills Elementary2.0 mi · 574
- Eastlake High School2.0 mi · 2,481
- Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning2.0 mi · 80
Frequently asked questions
About Creekside ElementaryHow many students attend Creekside Elementary?
Creekside Elementary enrolls approximately 555 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Creekside Elementary serve?
Creekside Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Creekside Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Creekside Elementary is approximately 17.0:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Creekside Elementary?
At Creekside Elementary, the student body is approximately 37% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 45% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Creekside Elementary in?
Creekside Elementary is part of Issaquah School District.
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