Kent Elementary School

Kent Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Kent, Washington, one of the schools within Kent School District. Current enrollment sits at 438 students spanning grades K through 5.

Kent School District comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,358 students; Kent Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Kent Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 16% Black, 10% Pacific Islander, 10% White, 10% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Kent Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kent Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.5%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for King County put median household income runs about $124,746, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Kent Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Kent Virtual Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kent Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Kent Elementary School's enrollment has declined 40% since 2018, when it stood at 732 (now 438). Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 10% to 16%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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