Gildo Rey Elementary School

Gildo Rey Elementary School is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in AUBURN, Washington, one of the schools within Auburn School District, with 416 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Gildo Rey Elementary School is one of 26 schools operated by Auburn School District, a district that hosts 18,174 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Gildo Rey Elementary School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school logs 16% White, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Gildo Rey Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gildo Rey Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for King County put 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%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Gildo Rey Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mt Baker Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gildo Rey Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Gildo Rey Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gildo Rey Elementary School has ticked down 30%, going from 596 students in 2018 to 416 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 20% to 16%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.