John Muir Elementary School

Located at 3301 S HORTON ST, in SEATTLE, Washington, John Muir Elementary School is a tight-knit primary school that hosts 308 students (grades K through 5), run under Seattle School District No. 1.

Seattle School District No. 1 comprises 107 schools with combined enrollment of 50,773 students; John Muir Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, John Muir Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% White, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 7% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above King County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, John Muir Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for King County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Muir Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Franklin High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John Muir Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Muir Elementary School has fell 14%, going from 357 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 51% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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