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What's the one class at Hazelwood Elementary School every student should take?
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Enrollment
502
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030002277
Hazelwood Elementary School
11815 SE 304TH ST, AUBURN, WA 98092 · (253) 931-4740 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL502 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
262 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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% . -25.9pp since 2014
Math
51.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -19.3pp 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 51 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 26 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 19 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.7% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.1% | 50.6% |
| 2022-23 | 51.5% | 52.2% |
| 2021-22 | 52.0% | 52.6% |
| 2018-19 | 69.5% | 65.4% |
| 2017-18 | 69.8% | 70.4% |
| 2016-17 | 68.5% | 75.4% |
| 2015-16 | 73.4% | 74.4% |
| 2014-15 | 73.6% | 70.3% |
% 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
47.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Hazelwood Elementary School
Hazelwood Elementary School's state test result (47.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazelwood Elementary School this school | 502 | 52.2% | 47.8% |
| Martha Lake Elementary LYNNWOOD | 545 | 50.8% | 38.9% |
| Oak Heights Elementary LYNNWOOD | 526 | 48.3% | 42.1% |
| Covington Elementary School Covington | 456 | 52.0% | 46.7% |
| Evergreen Heights Elementary AUBURN | 457 | 54.0% | 49.1% |
| Jefferson Elementary Everett | 503 | 46.1% | 62.1% |
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 Hazelwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #474 of 936 | #173 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #425 of 1,103 ▼ 4 | #158 of 281 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #568 of 1,102 ▲ 61 | #175 of 280 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #219 of 928 | #66 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 502 | #281 of 1,268 | #73 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #643 of 1,085 | #161 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.3% | #136 of 1,088 | #79 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.2% | #596 of 1,169 | #107 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.2% | #513 of 778 | #157 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
502
-29 (-5%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 554
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 502 | 31 | 16.2:1 | 52% (262) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 33.3 | 15.8:1 | 53% (278) |
| 2022-23 | 516 | 32.8 | 15.7:1 | 52% (267) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 40% (212) |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 33.3 | 17.2:1 | 45% (257) |
| 2015-16 | 558 | 31 | 18.0:1 | 49% (272) |
| 2010-11 | 532 | 27 | 19.7:1 | 33% (173) |
| 2000-01 | 615 | 27 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 554 | 21 | 26.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hazelwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (572 to 502); teachers down 7% (33.3 to 31).
About Hazelwood Elementary School
Students in AUBURN, Washington, attend Hazelwood Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school had 502 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Enrollment across the 26 schools in Auburn School District totals 18,174 students.
Hazelwood Elementary School has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 35%. Smaller groups are 26% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 7% Black. County-wide, 55% of King County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 75%, meaning two students picked at random have a 75% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 16.2:1 comes from the school's 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The lunch program counts 52% of students at Hazelwood Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in King County is 38%.
Hazelwood Elementary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 47.8% is 2.6 points above the 45.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
King County has these Census figures: the median household income is $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. In all, King County has 544 public schools and roughly 278,492 students.
Rainier Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. Within five miles of Hazelwood Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hazelwood Elementary School is 2nd of 9 on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Hazelwood Elementary School is City: Small.
Federal data show a 5% enrollment decrease, from 531 in 2020-21 to 502 in 2024-25.
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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 Auburn School District
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
Other Hazelwood Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Hazelwood Elementary. Hazelwood Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Hazelwood Elementary SchoolNewcastle, WA · 478 students
- Hazelwood ElementaryLYNNWOOD, WA · 419 students
- Hazelwood ElementaryClarksville, TN · 992 students
- Hazelwood ElementaryLouisville, KY · 527 students
- Hazelwood ElementaryWaynesville, NC · 490 students
Nearby schools
- Rainier Middle School0.1 mi · 907
- Lea Hill Elementary School0.5 mi · 593
- Willow Crest Elementary0.7 mi · 656
- Auburn Mountainview High School1.1 mi · 1,560
- Arthur Jacobsen Elementary1.1 mi · 367
- Cascade Middle School1.5 mi · 966
Frequently asked questions
About Hazelwood Elementary SchoolHow large is Hazelwood Elementary School?
Hazelwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 502 students in grades KG-05.
Is Hazelwood Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hazelwood Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hazelwood Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hazelwood Elementary School is approximately 16.2:1 (31 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hazelwood Elementary School?
Hazelwood Elementary School reports a student body of 35% White, 26% Hispanic, 7% Black, 22% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Hazelwood Elementary School?
Hazelwood Elementary School is overseen by Auburn School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.