Impact | Salish Sea Elementary
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
About Impact | Salish Sea Elementary
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus in Seattle, Washington, part of Impact | Salish Sea Elementary. The school caters to 385 students in grades K through 5.
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary sits inside Impact | Salish Sea Elementary, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
Demographically, Impact | Salish Sea Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 10% Asian, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 7% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above King County's rate of about 38%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Impact | Salish Sea Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.5%.
Zooming out to the county, 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%. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Wing Luke Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Impact | Salish Sea Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Impact | Salish Sea Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 37.9%.
The school occupies a high-density site. Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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