Horizon Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Kent, Washington, Horizon Elementary School instructs 408 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Kent School District.

Kent School District runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 25,358 students. Horizon Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Horizon Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 22% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 15% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Horizon Elementary School lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Horizon Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.4%; this one delivers 37.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for King County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Horizon Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Arthur Jacobsen Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Horizon Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Horizon Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

Horizon Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Horizon Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 454 (now 408). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 42% to 33%. Class-load math has widened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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