Enrollment
300
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423000666
Helen Keller Elementary
13820 - 108th NE, Kirkland, WA 98034 · (425) 936-2580 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL300 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Washington public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
14.7:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
94 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
59.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -7.7pp since 2014
Math
53.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 8 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.6% | 53.6% |
| 2023-24 | 63.7% | 54.8% |
| 2022-23 | 64.7% | 58.7% |
| 2021-22 | 69.4% | 56.2% |
| 2018-19 | 78.8% | 67.5% |
| 2017-18 | 76.9% | 69.2% |
| 2016-17 | 72.2% | 67.2% |
| 2015-16 | 68.5% | 60.0% |
| 2014-15 | 67.3% | 60.4% |
% 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
55.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Helen Keller Elementary
Helen Keller Elementary's state test result (55.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Keller Elementary this school | 300 | 31.3% | 55.5% |
| Terrace Park Elementary MTLK TERRACE | 295 | 30.8% | 57.8% |
| John Hay Elementary School SEATTLE | 257 | 30.0% | 54.0% |
| Sawyer Woods Elementary School Black Diamond | 303 | 29.0% | 58.7% |
| McKenny Elementary OLYMPIA | 322 | 29.8% | 61.9% |
| Grass Lake Elementary School Kent | 337 | 34.4% | 64.0% |
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 Helen Keller Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #335 of 936 | #146 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #375 of 1,103 ▼ 27 | #147 of 281 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.6% | #311 of 1,102 ▼ 62 | #132 of 280 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.2pp | #118 of 928 | #38 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 300 | #950 of 1,268 | #250 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #274 of 1,085 | #64 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.4% | #208 of 1,088 | #114 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.3% | #916 of 1,169 | #163 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #368 of 778 | #118 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
300
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 578
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 300 | 20.4 | 14.7:1 | 31% (94) |
| 2023-24 | 306 | 23.1 | 13.2:1 | 29% (90) |
| 2022-23 | 328 | 26.5 | 12.4:1 | 26% (85) |
| 2020-21 | 302 | 25 | 12.1:1 | 21% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 363 | 27.2 | 13.3:1 | 22% (81) |
| 2015-16 | 367 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 26% (97) |
| 2010-11 | 388 | 25 | 15.5:1 | 24% (94) |
| 2000-01 | 518 | 25 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 578 | 31 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Helen Keller Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (363 to 300); teachers down 25% (27.2 to 20.4).
About Helen Keller Elementary
Helen Keller Elementary runs as a small elementary school in Kirkland, Washington. The school has 300 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students, which makes this school 21% below average.
Helen Keller Elementary is one school in Lake Washington School District, a system of 55 schools with 30,986 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Helen Keller Elementary is White, with 42% of students. Enrollment also includes 20% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 14% Asian, and 5% Black. The school's White share is 12 points below the 55% share among King County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 72%.
Teacher count: 20.4 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.7:1. The gap from the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is 2.6 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 31%.
Helen Keller Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 37% of Washington public elementary schools.
Helen Keller Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 55.5%, compared with a predicted 59.2%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is King County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 544 public schools in the county, enrolling about 278,492, Helen Keller Elementary among them.
Robert Frost Elementary is the nearest public school to Helen Keller Elementary, about 0.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 59.5% proficiency; Helen Keller Elementary posts 55.5%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 302 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 300. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 12.1:1 to 14.7:1.
On allk12, people connected to Helen Keller Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Kirkland
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Kirkland Middle SchoolMiddle · 746 students
- Finn Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 664 students
- Lakeview ElementaryElementary · 602 students
- Peter Kirk ElementaryElementary · 592 students
Other Helen Keller Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Helen Keller Elementary. Helen Keller Elementary is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Helen Keller ElementaryFranklin, MA · 560 students
- Helen Keller Elementary SchoolTinley Park, IL · 426 students
- Helen Keller ElementaryLynwood, CA · 407 students
Nearby schools
- Robert Frost Elementary0.6 mi · 424
- Juanita High School0.7 mi · 1,778
- Juanita Elementary0.8 mi · 394
- Kamiakin Middle School1.4 mi · 573
- Northshore Middle School1.4 mi · 753
- Woodmoor Elementary1.4 mi · 643
Frequently asked questions
About Helen Keller ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Helen Keller Elementary?
Helen Keller Elementary enrolls approximately 300 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Helen Keller Elementary serve?
Helen Keller Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Helen Keller Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Helen Keller Elementary is approximately 14.7:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Helen Keller Elementary?
At Helen Keller Elementary, the student body is approximately 42% White, 20% Hispanic, 5% Black, 14% Asian, 18% Two or more.
Is Helen Keller Elementary public or private?
Helen Keller Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Washington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.