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Enrollment
558
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375003067
Grand Ridge Elementary
1739 NE Park Dr, Issaquah, WA 98029 · (425) 837-7926 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL558 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of Washington public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
48 students
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
78.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -7.1pp since 2014
Math
83.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 83.3% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 84.3% |
| 2022-23 | 83.9% | 84.6% |
| 2021-22 | 78.5% | 81.2% |
| 2018-19 | 73.9% | 79.1% |
| 2017-18 | 78.8% | 81.0% |
| 2016-17 | 78.9% | 83.7% |
| 2015-16 | 79.1% | 80.5% |
| 2014-15 | 85.1% | 85.6% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
82.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Grand Ridge Elementary
Grand Ridge Elementary's state test result (82.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Ridge Elementary this school | 558 | 8.6% | 82.9% |
| Bennett Elementary School Bellevue | 513 | 7.8% | 75.7% |
| Sunny Hills Elementary SAMMAMISH | 574 | 11.3% | 82.5% |
| Ruby Bridges Elementary Woodinville | 503 | 13.1% | 68.9% |
| Margaret Mead Elementary Sammamish | 580 | 4.8% | 79.4% |
| Creekside Elementary Sammamish | 555 | 5.8% | 79.4% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Grand Ridge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.9% | #32 of 936 | #27 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #28 of 1,103 ▼ 3 | #23 of 281 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #69 of 1,102 ▼ 16 | #54 of 280 ▼ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #509 of 928 | #139 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 558 | #157 of 1,268 | #38 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #793 of 1,085 | #204 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.0% | #356 of 1,088 | #176 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.6% | #1,134 of 1,169 | #261 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #167 of 778 | #61 of 220 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
558
-70 (-11%) vs 2020
-22% since 2010-11, when it was 712
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 558 | 33 | 16.9:1 | 9% (48) |
| 2023-24 | 547 | 31.8 | 17.2:1 | 8% (43) |
| 2022-23 | 564 | 36.2 | 15.6:1 | 6% (35) |
| 2020-21 | 628 | 40 | 15.7:1 | 5% (32) |
| 2017-18 | 758 | 40 | 18.9:1 | 5% (40) |
| 2015-16 | 774 | 40 | 19.4:1 | 6% (44) |
| 2010-11 | 712 | 35 | 20.3:1 | 5% (36) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grand Ridge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (758 to 558); teachers down 17% (40 to 33).
About Grand Ridge Elementary
As a mid-sized elementary school, Grand Ridge Elementary serves students in Issaquah, Washington. There are 558 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 47% bigger than the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington.
Grand Ridge Elementary reports to Issaquah School District, which has 30 schools and 19,098 students.
The biggest share of students at Grand Ridge Elementary, 48%, is Asian. Other reported shares: 28% White, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 3% Black. That compares with about 21% Asian among all King County residents. The diversity index for Grand Ridge Elementary is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 33 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.9:1. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is close to this figure. Grand Ridge Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 9%. That rate is below the 38% average among public schools in King County.
Grand Ridge Elementary holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 92% of Washington public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 74.4% for Grand Ridge Elementary. The school posts 82.9%, 8.5 points above the prediction.
In King County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 544 public schools in the county, enrolling about 278,492, Grand Ridge Elementary among them.
Grand Ridge Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Pacific Cascade Middle School, about 0.9 miles away. The five-mile area around Grand Ridge Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Grand Ridge Elementary ranks 2nd of 7 nearby schools, at 82.9% versus a 69.3% average.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 70 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The number of students per teacher increased from 15.7 to 16.9 over 4 years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Grand Ridge Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Issaquah School District
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Maywood Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
Other schools in Issaquah
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
- Beaver Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 699 students
- Issaquah Valley ElementaryElementary · 646 students
- Cougar Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 616 students
- Pacific Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 605 students
Nearby schools
- Pacific Cascade Middle School0.9 mi · 605
- Cedar Trails Elementary1.8 mi · 374
- Endeavour Elementary School1.8 mi · 473
- Issaquah Preschool Academy1.9 mi · 42
- Holly Street Early Learning Center1.9 mi · 89
- Issaquah Middle School1.9 mi · 808
Frequently asked questions
About Grand Ridge ElementaryHow many students attend Grand Ridge Elementary?
Grand Ridge Elementary enrolls approximately 558 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Grand Ridge Elementary serve?
Grand Ridge Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Grand Ridge Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Grand Ridge Elementary is approximately 16.9:1 (33 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Grand Ridge Elementary?
Grand Ridge Elementary reports a student body of 28% White, 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, 48% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Grand Ridge Elementary?
Grand Ridge Elementary is overseen by Issaquah School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.