Enrollment
385
Elementary
STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IMPACT | SALISH SEA ELEMENTARY·NCES 530034803749
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary
3900 Holly Park Dr South, Seattle, WA 98118 · (206) 712-7640 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL385 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Washington public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
15.4:1
25 FTE teachers
STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
257 students
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 | 85 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 183% larger than its 5th grade class (30).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
41.5%
WA avg 58.4% . +4.0pp since 2022
Math
40.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -1.2pp since 2022
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.5% | 40.4% |
| 2023-24 | 40.5% | 51.4% |
| 2022-23 | 37.5% | 41.7% |
% 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
44.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Impact | Salish Sea Elementary
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary's state test result (44.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact | Salish Sea Elementary this school | 385 | 66.8% | 44.5% |
| Impact Public Schools Tukwila | 505 | 69.7% | 48.0% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School SEATTLE | 289 | 73.0% | 31.6% |
| Wing Luke Elementary School SEATTLE | 334 | 71.6% | 33.8% |
| Emerson Elementary School SEATTLE | 398 | 73.6% | 23.7% |
| Bailey Gatzert Elementary School SEATTLE | 402 | 79.6% | 33.6% |
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 Impact | Salish Sea Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #530 of 936 | #185 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #650 of 1,103 ▼ 239 | #191 of 281 ▼ 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #707 of 1,102 ▲ 2 | #202 of 280 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 385 | #689 of 1,268 | #196 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #446 of 1,085 | #105 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #408 of 1,088 | #189 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.8% | #323 of 1,169 | #65 of 292 |
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
385
+258 (+203%) vs 2020
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 | 385 | 25 | 15.4:1 | 67% (257) |
| 2023-24 | 307 | 23 | 13.3:1 | 71% (218) |
| 2022-23 | 342 | 28 | 12.2:1 | 63% (217) |
| 2020-21 | 127 | N/A | N/A | 40% (51) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Impact | Salish Sea Elementary.
About Impact | Salish Sea Elementary
In Seattle, Washington, Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. It reported 385 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
At Impact | Salish Sea Elementary, 54% of students are Black. Other students are 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 10% Asian, and 7% White. That is higher than the 7% Black share among all King County residents. The diversity index for Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1. The school's 15.4:1 compares with an average of 17.3:1 for elementary schools in Washington. The school has 67% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in King County averages 38%, lower than here.
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 62% of Washington public elementary schools.
A school with Impact | Salish Sea Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Washington is predicted to score 35.4%. Impact | Salish Sea Elementary scores 44.5%, 9.1 points above that line.
In the surrounding county, King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 544 public schools and about 278,492 students.
Wing Luke Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Impact | Salish Sea Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is 3rd on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Charter status: Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is a public charter school.
In 2020-21, federal data counted 127 students at Impact | Salish Sea Elementary; in 2024-25, 385. The grades served may not have been the same in both years.
This page is set up for the Impact | Salish Sea Elementary community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
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Frequently asked questions
About Impact | Salish Sea ElementaryHow many students attend Impact | Salish Sea Elementary?
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary enrolls approximately 385 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Impact | Salish Sea Elementary serve?
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Impact | Salish Sea Elementary have?
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Impact | Salish Sea Elementary?
At Impact | Salish Sea Elementary, the student body is approximately 7% White, 19% Hispanic, 54% Black, 10% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Impact | Salish Sea Elementary?
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is overseen by Impact | Salish Sea Elementary in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.