East Hill Elementary School

East Hill Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Kent, Washington, overseen by Kent School District. Current enrollment sits at 383 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Kent School District, which oversees 44 schools and 25,358 students, East Hill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, East Hill Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Asian, 13% Black, 12% White, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting East Hill Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, East Hill Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.9%; East Hill Elementary School posts 16.8%, -15.1 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for King County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. East Hill Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

The closest other public school is Kent-Meridian High School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), East Hill Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 28.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. East Hill Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 27% since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 383). Black enrollment moved from 21% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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