Dunlap Elementary School

Dunlap Elementary School operates as an intimate elementary school in SEATTLE, Washington, one of the schools within Seattle School District No. 1. Current enrollment sits at 261 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Dunlap Elementary School sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Seattle School District No. 1, which oversees 107 schools and 50,773 students, Dunlap Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Dunlap Elementary School logs that 29% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 13% White, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 7% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Dunlap Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Dunlap Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dunlap Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.5%; this one delivers 37.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for King County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Dunlap Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

South Shore PK-8 School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dunlap Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dunlap Elementary School has edged down 10%, going from 291 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 44% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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