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What advice would you give to incoming students at Gregory Heights Elementary?
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Enrollment
488
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530354000528
Gregory Heights Elementary
16216 19th Ave SW, Burien, WA 98166 · (206) 631-3800 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL488 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
249 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
47.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.4pp since 2014
Math
45.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.7% | 45.9% |
| 2023-24 | 51.9% | 44.4% |
| 2022-23 | 41.1% | 39.1% |
| 2021-22 | 35.4% | 28.2% |
| 2018-19 | 55.6% | 46.2% |
| 2017-18 | 52.3% | 48.8% |
| 2016-17 | 53.5% | 50.1% |
| 2015-16 | 48.3% | 50.3% |
| 2014-15 | 48.1% | 46.2% |
% 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
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Gregory Heights Elementary
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory Heights Elementary this school | 488 | 51.0% | 47.4% |
| Crestline Elementary School Vancouver | 446 | 52.5% | N/A |
| Karshner Elementary Puyallup | 405 | 53.8% | 33.1% |
| Marrion Elementary School Vancouver | 528 | 49.6% | N/A |
| Lincoln Elementary School KENNEWICK | 427 | 52.5% | N/A |
| Sarah J Anderson Elementary VANCOUVER | 625 | 51.8% | N/A |
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 Gregory Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #479 of 936 | #174 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.9% | #511 of 1,103 ▲ 29 | #174 of 281 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #567 of 1,102 ▼ 110 | #174 of 280 ▼ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +15.0pp | #26 of 928 | #9 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 488 | #325 of 1,268 | #87 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #691 of 1,085 | #176 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.4% | #279 of 1,088 | #147 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.0% | #619 of 1,169 | #112 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #187 of 778 | #70 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
488
+60 (+14%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 431
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 488 | 29.7 | 16.4:1 | 51% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 28.7 | 16.8:1 | 52% (253) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 25.3 | 17.9:1 | 50% (224) |
| 2020-21 | 428 | 24 | 17.8:1 | 48% (205) |
| 2017-18 | 656 | 34.8 | 18.9:1 | 52% (344) |
| 2015-16 | 669 | 36 | 18.6:1 | 56% (376) |
| 2010-11 | 604 | 30 | 20.1:1 | 42% (256) |
| 2000-01 | 456 | 21 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 431 | 18 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gregory Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (656 to 488); teachers down 15% (34.8 to 29.7).
About Gregory Heights Elementary
Gregory Heights Elementary is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Burien, Washington. It serves 488 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students.
Gregory Heights Elementary is one school in a 36-school district, Highline School District, which enrolls 18,072 students.
Gregory Heights Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 40%. It is also 34% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 5% Black. King County's residents are about 11% Hispanic, 29 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Gregory Heights Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 70%.
Gregory Heights Elementary's 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 16.4:1. That ratio is under the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 51%. That is 13 points above the 38% average for public schools in King County.
Gregory Heights Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 47.4%, compared with a predicted 46.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for King County show that median household income is about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 544 public schools in King County, with a combined enrollment of about 278,492.
Nearest public school: Sylvester Middle School, about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Gregory Heights Elementary is 1st of 5 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES assigns Gregory Heights Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Gregory Heights Elementary had 428 students in 2020-21 and 488 in 2024-25, a 14% increase. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.8:1 to 16.4:1 over the same years.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Gregory Heights Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Highline School District
- Mount Rainier High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Evergreen High SchoolHigh · 1,080 students
- Glacier Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 671 students
- Tyee High SchoolHigh · 644 students
Other schools in Burien
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Sylvester Middle SchoolMiddle · 582 students
- Hazel Valley ElementaryElementary · 469 students
- Seahurst Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Shorewood ElementaryElementary · 400 students
- Cedarhurst ElementaryElementary · 399 students
Nearby schools
- Sylvester Middle School0.7 mi · 582
- Seahurst Elementary School0.9 mi · 405
- Highline High School1.3 mi · 1,423
- Puget Sound Skills Center1.9 mi · 3
- Big Picture School1.9 mi · 233
- CHOICE Academy2.0 mi · 176
Frequently asked questions
About Gregory Heights ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Gregory Heights Elementary?
Gregory Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 488 students in grades PK-05.
Is Gregory Heights Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gregory Heights Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Gregory Heights Elementary have?
Gregory Heights Elementary employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
How diverse is Gregory Heights Elementary?
Gregory Heights Elementary reports a student body of 34% White, 40% Hispanic, 5% Black, 6% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Gregory Heights Elementary?
Gregory Heights Elementary is overseen by Highline School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.