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Enrollment
508
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375002426
Discovery Elementary
2300 228TH AVE SE, ISSAQUAH, WA 98075 · (425) 837-4100 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
56%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
85.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.3pp since 2014
Math
86.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.8% | 86.1% |
| 2023-24 | 82.5% | 84.3% |
| 2022-23 | 80.1% | 87.0% |
| 2021-22 | 86.0% | 87.0% |
| 2018-19 | 89.7% | 89.5% |
| 2017-18 | 89.5% | 87.7% |
| 2016-17 | 89.4% | 90.5% |
| 2015-16 | 88.5% | 88.3% |
| 2014-15 | 86.0% | 88.4% |
% 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
85.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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 Discovery Elementary
Discovery Elementary's state test result (85.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Elementary this school | 508 | 4.9% | 85.0% |
| Rachel Carson Elementary Sammamish | 486 | 2.5% | 85.7% |
| Rosa Parks Elementary Redmond | 450 | 5.8% | 84.4% |
| Christa Mcauliffe Elementary Sammamish | 472 | 1.5% | 92.1% |
| Kokanee Elementary Woodinville | 651 | 6.8% | 79.5% |
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary Kirkland | 452 | 10.0% | 80.7% |
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 Discovery Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #20 of 936 | #18 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.1% | #20 of 1,103 ▲ 4 | #18 of 281 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.8% | #17 of 1,102 ▲ 23 | #15 of 280 ▲ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #348 of 928 | #110 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #268 of 1,268 | #70 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #843 of 1,085 | #218 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.8% | #623 of 1,088 | #239 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.9% | #1,158 of 1,169 | #282 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.8% | #250 of 778 | #86 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
508
-141 (-22%) vs 2020
-31% since 2000-01, when it was 740
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 508 | 29.7 | 17.1:1 | 5% (25) |
| 2023-24 | 543 | 31.3 | 17.4:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2022-23 | 589 | 34.3 | 17.2:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2020-21 | 649 | 37 | 17.5:1 | 2% (11) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 34.6 | 18.8:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 32 | 17.6:1 | 1% (8) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | 31 | 19.7:1 | 2% (10) |
| 2000-01 | 740 | 34 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Discovery Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (650 to 508); teachers down 14% (34.6 to 29.7).
About Discovery Elementary
Discovery Elementary is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in ISSAQUAH, Washington. Its enrollment is 508 students, spread over pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 34% above that mark.
Discovery Elementary is a school in Issaquah School District. The district has 30 schools and 19,098 students.
More than half of the students at Discovery Elementary are Asian (62%). The remaining shares are 21% White, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Black. 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, Discovery Elementary scores 56%.
The school's 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1. It is about the same as the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. At Discovery Elementary, 5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in King County average 38%.
Discovery Elementary's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (85.0%) and its predicted rate (76.9%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools.
Looking at the county, King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Discovery Elementary, King County has 544 public schools.
Discovery Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Pine Lake Middle School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Discovery Elementary is 1st of 8 on proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 22% decrease, from 649 to 508.
On allk12, people connected to Discovery Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 Discovery Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 10 states are named Discovery Elementary. Discovery Elementary is the 12th largest of the 17.
- Discovery ElementaryEverett, WA · 648 students
- Discovery Elementary SchoolGig Harbor, WA · 380 students
- Discovery Elementary - 26Sioux Falls, SD · 873 students
- DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSUNRISE, FL · 789 students
- Discovery ElementarySan Marcos, CA · 717 students
Nearby schools
- Pine Lake Middle School0.6 mi · 877
- Sunny Hills Elementary0.7 mi · 574
- Skyline High School0.8 mi · 2,244
- Creekside Elementary1.4 mi · 555
- Beaver Lake Middle School1.5 mi · 699
- Cedar Trails Elementary1.6 mi · 374
Frequently asked questions
About Discovery ElementaryHow many students attend Discovery Elementary?
Discovery Elementary enrolls approximately 508 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Discovery Elementary serve?
Discovery Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Discovery Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Discovery Elementary is approximately 17.1:1 (30 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Discovery Elementary?
Discovery Elementary reports a student body of 21% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 62% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Discovery Elementary?
Discovery 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.