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Enrollment
675
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030000037
Dick Scobee Elementary School
1031 14th ST NE, AUBURN, WA 98002 · (253) 931-4984 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL675 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
542 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 52 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 119 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (119) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (103).
Student demographics
81%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
25.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -28.3pp since 2014
Math
23.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -28.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 28 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 29 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.1% | 23.6% |
| 2023-24 | 24.3% | 27.7% |
| 2022-23 | 27.7% | 25.5% |
| 2021-22 | 32.1% | 18.4% |
| 2018-19 | 45.7% | 43.3% |
| 2017-18 | 45.8% | 40.9% |
| 2016-17 | 41.1% | 34.0% |
| 2015-16 | 45.1% | 40.4% |
| 2014-15 | 53.4% | 52.3% |
% 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
24.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Dick Scobee Elementary School
Dick Scobee Elementary School's state test result (24.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dick Scobee Elementary School this school | 675 | 80.3% | 24.5% |
| Cascade View Elementary Tukwila | 481 | 80.7% | 19.4% |
| Parkside Elementary Des Moines | 535 | 80.2% | 24.7% |
| River Ridge Elementary SeaTac | 697 | 72.7% | 16.0% |
| Sunnycrest Elementary School KENT | 535 | 81.1% | 19.8% |
| Rainier View Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 495 | 78.4% | 21.8% |
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 Dick Scobee Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #872 of 936 | #261 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #982 of 1,103 ▼ 89 | #261 of 281 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.1% | #1,020 of 1,102 ▲ 7 | #261 of 280 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.9pp | #326 of 928 | #105 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 675 | #44 of 1,268 | #8 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #640 of 1,085 | #159 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 80.9% | #8 of 1,088 | #4 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.3% | #112 of 1,169 | #13 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +33.9% | #20 of 257 | #7 of 54 |
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
675
+171 (+34%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 554
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 675 | 41.8 | 16.2:1 | 80% (542) |
| 2023-24 | 648 | 41.6 | 15.6:1 | 83% (537) |
| 2022-23 | 825 | 48.8 | 16.9:1 | 84% (690) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 36 | 14.0:1 | 76% (381) |
| 2017-18 | 504 | 35.9 | 14.1:1 | 70% (354) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 35 | 15.6:1 | 76% (414) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | 23 | 20.3:1 | 47% (220) |
| 2000-01 | 466 | 24 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 554 | 23 | 24.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dick Scobee Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 34% (504 to 675); teachers up 16% (35.9 to 41.8).
About Dick Scobee Elementary School
Dick Scobee Elementary School is a large elementary school in AUBURN, Washington, under Auburn School District. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 675 students. The school's enrollment is 78% bigger than the 380 average for elementary schools in Washington.
Across its 26 schools, Auburn School District enrolls 18,174 students. Dick Scobee Elementary School is one of those schools.
The most common group at Dick Scobee Elementary School is Asian students, at 28%. It is also 21% Hispanic, 18% White, 15% Black, and 9% Pacific Islander. Dick Scobee Elementary School's diversity index is 81%, against a US figure of 70%.
At Dick Scobee Elementary School, 41.8 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 16.2:1. That is lower than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Roughly 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The 38% average for public schools in King County is 42 points lower.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Dick Scobee Elementary School is 26.3%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 24.5%.
According to the American Community Survey, in King County, the median household income is $124,746, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. There are 544 public schools in King County, enrolling about 278,492 students in all.
The nearest public school is Cascade Middle School, at about 0.6 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 33.8%, higher than Dick Scobee Elementary School's 24.5%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school enrolled 675 students in 2024-25, 171 more than the 504 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.0:1 to 16.2:1.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Auburn School District
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
Nearby schools
- Cascade Middle School0.6 mi · 966
- Special Ed School0.8 mi · 35
- Auburn Senior High School0.8 mi · 1,918
- Washington Elementary School0.9 mi · 501
- West Auburn Senior High School1.2 mi · 506
- Auburn Opportunity Project1.2 mi · 92
Frequently asked questions
About Dick Scobee Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Dick Scobee Elementary School?
Dick Scobee Elementary School enrolls approximately 675 students in grades PK-05.
Is Dick Scobee Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dick Scobee Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Dick Scobee Elementary School have?
Dick Scobee Elementary School employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1.
How diverse is Dick Scobee Elementary School?
Dick Scobee Elementary School reports a student body of 18% White, 21% Hispanic, 15% Black, 28% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Dick Scobee Elementary School?
Dick Scobee Elementary School is overseen by Auburn School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.