Enrollment
353
Elementary
DISTRICT 253 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530033000044
Halilts Elementary School
12781 Madison Ave NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 · (206) 842-4411 · Kitsap County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL353 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
45 students
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 21 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 14% smaller than its 4th grade class (71).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Bainbridge Island School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
78.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.0pp since 2014
Math
75.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.7% | 75.3% |
| 2023-24 | 73.6% | 73.6% |
| 2022-23 | 81.6% | 82.3% |
| 2021-22 | 75.0% | 74.2% |
| 2018-19 | 88.4% | 86.5% |
| 2017-18 | 88.2% | 85.9% |
| 2016-17 | 82.5% | 83.6% |
| 2015-16 | 77.6% | 81.8% |
| 2014-15 | 79.7% | 81.9% |
% 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
75.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Halilts Elementary School
Halilts Elementary School's state test result (75.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halilts Elementary School this school | 353 | 12.7% | 75.3% |
| Capt Johnston Blakely Elem Sch Bainbridge Island | 356 | 12.9% | 86.9% |
| Artondale Elementary School Gig Harbor | 413 | 16.7% | 68.0% |
| Voyager Elementary Gig Harbor | 443 | 12.2% | 70.3% |
| Whittier Elementary School SEATTLE | 346 | 8.7% | 79.2% |
| Skyline Elementary Spokane | 412 | 17.0% | 74.1% |
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 Halilts Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.3% | #87 of 936 | #3 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.3% | #82 of 1,103 ▲ 15 | #3 of 38 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.7% | #64 of 1,102 ▲ 49 | #3 of 38 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.4pp | #410 of 928 | #17 of 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 353 | #793 of 1,268 | #26 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #244 of 1,085 | #15 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.6% | #971 of 1,088 | #35 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.7% | #1,103 of 1,169 | #37 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.3% | #489 of 778 | #15 of 32 |
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
353
+40 (+13%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 353 | 24.2 | 14.6:1 | 13% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 23.6 | 14.6:1 | 10% (35) |
| 2022-23 | 349 | 23.6 | 14.8:1 | 8% (29) |
| 2020-21 | 313 | 24 | 13.0:1 | 3% (9) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 24.1 | 16.9:1 | 4% (15) |
| 2015-16 | 393 | 22 | 17.9:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 21 | 19.4:1 | 5% (19) |
| 2000-01 | 416 | 22 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 22 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Halilts Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (407 to 353); teachers up 1% (24.1 to 24.2).
About Halilts Elementary School
Halilts Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Bainbridge Island, Washington, administered by Bainbridge Island School District. The grade span is pre-K through 4, and enrollment is 353 students.
Federal data list 10 schools in Bainbridge Island School District, with 3,514 students enrolled.
White students are the majority at Halilts Elementary School, with 79% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 36% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Halilts Elementary School's 24.2 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 14.6:1. That is lower than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 13%. That is 28 points below the 41% average for public schools in Kitsap County.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Halilts Elementary School would score about 71.7%. It scores 75.3%, 3.7 points above that figure.
Census Bureau estimates for Kitsap County show that the median household income is $104,158, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. There are 77 public schools in Kitsap County, enrolling about 34,233 students in all.
The nearest other public school, Sonoji Sakai Intermediate, is about 2.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Halilts Elementary School is 5th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place Halilts Elementary School in the Suburb: Mid-size locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment grew 13% from its 2020-21 level of 313. The ratio was 13.0:1 in 2020-21 and 14.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bainbridge Island School District
- Bainbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Woodward Middle SchoolMiddle · 479 students
- Sonoji Sakai IntermediateMiddle · 456 students
- Capt Johnston Blakely Elem SchElementary · 356 students
- Ordway ElementaryElementary · 320 students
- Odyssey Multiage ProgramElementary · 177 students
Other schools in Bainbridge Island
- Bainbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Woodward Middle SchoolMiddle · 479 students
- Sonoji Sakai IntermediateMiddle · 456 students
- Capt Johnston Blakely Elem SchElementary · 356 students
- Ordway ElementaryElementary · 320 students
- Odyssey Multiage ProgramElementary · 177 students
Nearby schools
- Sonoji Sakai Intermediate2.1 mi · 456
- Woodward Middle School2.3 mi · 479
- Ordway Elementary2.6 mi · 320
- Bainbridge Special Education Services2.7 mi · 27
- Bainbridge High School2.8 mi · 1,208
- Odyssey Multiage Program2.9 mi · 177
Frequently asked questions
About Halilts Elementary SchoolHow large is Halilts Elementary School?
Halilts Elementary School enrolls approximately 353 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Halilts Elementary School serve?
Halilts Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Halilts Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Halilts Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Halilts Elementary School?
Student demographics at Halilts Elementary School are roughly 79% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Halilts Elementary School public or private?
Halilts Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bainbridge Island School District.
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