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Does Hazel Valley Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
469
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530354000529
Hazel Valley Elementary
402 SW 132nd St, Burien, WA 98146 · (206) 631-3900 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
314 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
56%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
27.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -14.8pp since 2014
Math
24.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -17.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 15 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 17 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 24.1% |
| 2023-24 | 24.6% | 16.9% |
| 2022-23 | 18.2% | 15.8% |
| 2021-22 | 23.8% | 12.6% |
| 2018-19 | 38.0% | 33.0% |
| 2017-18 | 43.4% | 40.1% |
| 2016-17 | 38.7% | 36.0% |
| 2015-16 | 36.9% | 38.4% |
| 2014-15 | 41.8% | 41.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Hazel Valley Elementary
Hazel Valley Elementary's state test result (24.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Valley Elementary this school | 469 | 67.0% | 24.2% |
| Mount View Elementary Seattle | 460 | 63.5% | 27.6% |
| Gildo Rey Elementary School AUBURN | 416 | 72.6% | 36.3% |
| Horizon Elementary Everett | 550 | 74.5% | 23.3% |
| Armin Jahr Elementary Bremerton | 495 | 65.5% | 27.6% |
| Highlands Elementary School Renton | 386 | 70.2% | 25.6% |
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 Hazel Valley Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #875 of 936 | #263 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #974 of 1,103 ▲ 74 | #256 of 281 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #991 of 1,102 ▲ 30 | #252 of 280 ▲ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.4pp | #156 of 928 | #35 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #387 of 1,268 | #105 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #541 of 1,085 | #132 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #627 of 1,088 | #241 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.0% | #315 of 1,169 | #62 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.8% | #89 of 778 | #37 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
469
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 420
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 469 | 29.6 | 15.8:1 | 67% (314) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | 31 | 15.3:1 | 74% (348) |
| 2022-23 | 466 | 29.3 | 15.9:1 | 71% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 465 | 28 | 16.6:1 | 67% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 688 | 40.6 | 16.9:1 | 78% (538) |
| 2015-16 | 677 | 36 | 18.8:1 | 84% (566) |
| 2010-11 | 597 | 30 | 19.9:1 | 63% (377) |
| 2000-01 | 380 | 21 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 420 | 19 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hazel Valley Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (688 to 469); teachers down 27% (40.6 to 29.6).
About Hazel Valley Elementary
Hazel Valley Elementary runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Burien, Washington. Federal data show 469 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Across its 36 schools, Highline School District enrolls 18,072 students. Hazel Valley Elementary is one of those schools.
The largest group at Hazel Valley Elementary is Hispanic students, at 64%. Other groups make up 15% White, 7% Black, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 11% of King County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for Hazel Valley Elementary is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.8:1. The school has 29.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is 1.5 students per teacher. In all, 67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in King County is 38%.
Hazel Valley Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 24.2%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Washington are predicted to post 35.3%, so the school is 11.1 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Looking at the county, King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Hazel Valley Elementary.
Cedarhurst Elementary is the nearest public school to Hazel Valley Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. Hazel Valley Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 23.2%, lower than Hazel Valley Elementary's 24.2%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 465 to 469, a small change.
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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
- Gregory Heights ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Seahurst Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Shorewood ElementaryElementary · 400 students
- Cedarhurst ElementaryElementary · 399 students
Nearby schools
- Cedarhurst Elementary0.7 mi · 399
- Highline Open Doors 14180.7 mi · 240
- Evergreen High School1.0 mi · 1,080
- Highline Public Schools Virtual Academy1.1 mi · 208
- Seahurst Elementary School1.2 mi · 405
- Cascade Middle School1.2 mi · 671
Frequently asked questions
About Hazel Valley ElementaryHow many students attend Hazel Valley Elementary?
Hazel Valley Elementary enrolls approximately 469 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hazel Valley Elementary serve?
Hazel Valley Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hazel Valley Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hazel Valley Elementary is approximately 15.8:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hazel Valley Elementary?
At Hazel Valley Elementary, the student body is approximately 15% White, 64% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Hazel Valley Elementary public or private?
Hazel Valley Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Highline School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.