Impact | Black River Elementary

Impact | Black River Elementary is an intimate elementary school in Renton, Washington, part of Impact | Black River Elementary. The school caters to 209 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 380.

Impact | Black River Elementary is a school of Impact | Black River Elementary, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Impact | Black River Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 12% White, 10% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Impact | Black River Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.1%; Impact | Black River Elementary posts 27.4%, -10.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, King County reports that median household income runs about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Impact | Black River Elementary is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cascade Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Impact | Black River Elementary. On composite proficiency, Impact | Black River Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Impact | Black River Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.