John J. Audubon Elementary

Set in Redmond, Washington, John J. Audubon Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, overseen by Lake Washington School District. It instructs 431 students across grades K through 5.

Within Lake Washington School District, which oversees 55 schools and 30,986 students, John J. Audubon Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, John J. Audubon Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 42% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below King County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, John J. Audubon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.9%, the actual is 81.5%, a residual of +6.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for King County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which John J. Audubon Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Ardmore Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, John J. Audubon Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

John J. Audubon Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment fell from 51% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.