Kenmore Elementary

Kenmore Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus in Kenmore, Washington, overseen by Northshore School District. The school educates 396 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 37 schools in Northshore School District (22,735 students total), Kenmore Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Kenmore Elementary lists that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 26% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 10% Asian, 7% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Kenmore Elementary lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Kenmore Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Kenmore Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.6%; this one delivers 60.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (King County) records that 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. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Kenmore Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Kenmore Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kenmore Elementary. On composite proficiency, Kenmore Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kenmore Elementary has contracted 21%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 52% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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