Graham Hill Elementary School

Graham Hill Elementary School is an intimate elementary-level community in SEATTLE, Washington, run under Seattle School District No. 1. The school enrolls 266 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 30% below the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Graham Hill Elementary School is one of 107 schools operated by Seattle School District No. 1, a district that instructs 50,773 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Graham Hill Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (27%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic, 21% Black, 14% Asian, 12% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Graham Hill Elementary School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Graham Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -8.3 points.

Around the school, census data for King County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Graham Hill Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Rainier Valley Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 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), Graham Hill Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.8%.

Graham Hill Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 26%: 358 students in 2018 compared to 266 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 30% to 21%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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