Esquire Hills Elementary

Esquire Hills Elementary is a K-5 school of close-knit scale in Bremerton, Washington, one of the schools within Central Kitsap School District, hosting 288 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 24% below typical.

Esquire Hills Elementary is one of 19 schools operated by Central Kitsap School District, a district that serves 11,100 students overall.

On demographics, Esquire Hills Elementary shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 23% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, 5% Pacific Islander, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, On paper, Esquire Hills Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Esquire Hills Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Esquire Hills Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Kitsap County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, Esquire Hills Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.2%; this one delivers 44.9%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Kitsap County put median household earnings sit near $104,158, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Kitsap County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), of which Esquire Hills Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Brownsville Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Esquire Hills Elementary. On composite proficiency, Esquire Hills Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 341 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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