Fairmount Park Elementary School

Located at 3800 SW FINDLAY ST, in SEATTLE, Washington, Fairmount Park Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school that enrolls 357 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Seattle School District No. 1.

Fairmount Park Elementary School is one of 107 schools operated by Seattle School District No. 1, a district that educates 50,773 students overall.

Demographically, Fairmount Park Elementary School shows that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 16% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Fairmount Park Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fairmount Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 72.2%, a residual of +7.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for King County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Fairmount Park Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Seattle Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairmount Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Fairmount Park Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

Fairmount Park Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairmount Park Elementary School has edged down 34%, going from 545 students in 2018 to 357 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 60% to 54%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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