Enrollment
261
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1·NCES 530771001161
Dunlap Elementary School
4525 S CLOVERDALE ST, SEATTLE, WA 98118 · (206) 252-7000 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL261 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
201 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 41 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
45.2%
WA avg 58.4% . +11.3pp since 2014
Math
26.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -10.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.2% | 26.1% |
| 2023-24 | 47.1% | 34.7% |
| 2022-23 | 42.5% | 31.9% |
| 2021-22 | 48.3% | 29.9% |
| 2018-19 | 50.9% | 34.6% |
| 2017-18 | 34.8% | 33.9% |
| 2016-17 | 32.8% | 32.5% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 40.7% |
| 2014-15 | 33.9% | 36.2% |
% 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
37.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Dunlap Elementary School
Dunlap Elementary School's state test result (37.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunlap Elementary School this school | 261 | 77.0% | 37.8% |
| Rising Star Elementary School SEATTLE | 324 | 69.8% | 48.7% |
| Campbell Hill Elementary School Seattle | 345 | 70.7% | 39.9% |
| Lister Elementary School Tacoma | 376 | 78.7% | 28.2% |
| McMicken Heights Elementary SeaTac | 484 | 76.0% | 34.7% |
| Pine Tree Elementary School Kent | 305 | 72.8% | 27.4% |
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 Dunlap Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #669 of 936 | #208 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #946 of 1,103 ▼ 195 | #250 of 281 ▼ 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #620 of 1,102 ▼ 62 | #183 of 280 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.4pp | #205 of 928 | #61 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 261 | #1,036 of 1,268 | #271 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #4 of 1,085 | #2 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.7% | #77 of 1,088 | #44 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.0% | #153 of 1,169 | #21 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #552 of 778 | #168 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
261
-40 (-13%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 256
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 261 | 24.5 | 10.7:1 | 77% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 248 | 25.6 | 9.7:1 | 83% (206) |
| 2022-23 | 290 | 22.6 | 12.8:1 | 79% (229) |
| 2020-21 | 301 | 26 | 11.6:1 | 60% (181) |
| 2017-18 | 291 | 23 | 12.7:1 | 74% (214) |
| 2015-16 | 320 | 25 | 12.8:1 | 57% (184) |
| 2010-11 | 429 | 25 | 17.2:1 | 82% (350) |
| 2000-01 | 452 | 27 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 256 | 12 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dunlap Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (291 to 261); teachers up 7% (23 to 24.5).
About Dunlap Elementary School
Dunlap Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in SEATTLE, Washington. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 261 students enrolled. It has 31% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Washington (about 380).
Dunlap Elementary School is run by Seattle School District No. 1, whose 107 schools enroll 50,773 students.
At Dunlap Elementary School, Black students make up the biggest share, 29%. Other groups make up 27% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 13% White, and 11% multiracial. County-wide, 7% of King County residents are Black. A diversity index of 78% means there is a 78% chance two randomly chosen students at Dunlap Elementary School are from different groups.
Teacher count: 24.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.7:1. The gap from the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is 6.7 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 77%. The average for public schools in King County is 38%.
Dunlap Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 37.8%, compared with a predicted 28.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for King County show that the median household earns about $124,746 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Dunlap Elementary School.
Dunlap Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is South Shore PK-8 School, about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Dunlap Elementary School ranks 4th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 37.8% against a local average of 36.6%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
The school's enrollment fell 13% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Dunlap Elementary School. 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 Seattle School District No. 1
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other schools in SEATTLE
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other Dunlap Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Dunlap Elementary. Dunlap Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Dunlap ElementaryDunlap, CA · 419 students
- Dunlap ElementaryYucaipa, CA · 382 students
Nearby schools
- South Shore PK-8 School0.1 mi · 546
- Middle College High School0.2 mi · 93
- Alan T. Sugiyama High School0.2 mi · 48
- Rainier Beach High School0.4 mi · 854
- Wing Luke Elementary School0.6 mi · 334
- Rising Star Elementary School0.7 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About Dunlap Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dunlap Elementary School?
Dunlap Elementary School enrolls approximately 261 students in grades PK-05.
Is Dunlap Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dunlap Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Dunlap Elementary School have?
Dunlap Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Dunlap Elementary School?
Student demographics at Dunlap Elementary School are roughly 13% White, 20% Hispanic, 29% Black, 27% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Dunlap Elementary School in?
Dunlap Elementary School is part of Seattle School District No. 1.
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