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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Lafayette Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
532
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1·NCES 530771001195
Lafayette Elementary School
2645 CALIFORNIA AV SW, SEATTLE, WA 98116 · (206) 252-9500 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
85 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
69.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -7.6pp since 2014
Math
66.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.6% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.8% | 70.7% |
| 2022-23 | 60.4% | 65.4% |
| 2021-22 | 67.7% | 62.8% |
| 2018-19 | 73.2% | 67.2% |
| 2017-18 | 69.3% | 65.6% |
| 2016-17 | 67.5% | 62.7% |
| 2015-16 | 66.5% | 70.9% |
| 2014-15 | 77.2% | 73.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lafayette Elementary School
Lafayette Elementary School's state test result (70.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Elementary School this school | 532 | 16.0% | 70.0% |
| Melvin G Syre Elementary Shoreline | 444 | 16.0% | 70.1% |
| Tehaleh Heights Elementary School Bonney Lake | 627 | 18.3% | 81.8% |
| Sherwood Elementary EDMONDS | 491 | 22.8% | 61.0% |
| Arbor Heights Elementary School SEATTLE | 495 | 23.4% | 59.1% |
| Maple Hills Elementary RENTON | 460 | 13.0% | 75.8% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lafayette Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #138 of 936 | #94 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #181 of 1,103 ▼ 57 | #109 of 281 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #164 of 1,102 ▲ 23 | #95 of 280 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.6pp | #400 of 928 | #103 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #209 of 1,268 | #56 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #944 of 1,085 | #240 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #577 of 1,088 | #232 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.0% | #1,076 of 1,169 | #220 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.4% | #26 of 257 | #11 of 54 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
532
+103 (+24%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 426
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 532 | 30 | 17.7:1 | 16% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 504 | 29 | 17.4:1 | 16% (81) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 29 | 16.4:1 | 16% (77) |
| 2020-21 | 429 | 27 | 15.9:1 | 13% (57) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 22.5 | 18.0:1 | 15% (60) |
| 2015-16 | 488 | 24 | 20.3:1 | 20% (100) |
| 2010-11 | 524 | 25 | 21.0:1 | 15% (79) |
| 2000-01 | 436 | 22 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 426 | 21 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lafayette Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 31% (405 to 532); teachers up 33% (22.5 to 30).
About Lafayette Elementary School
Lafayette Elementary School is a public elementary school in SEATTLE, Washington. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 532 students. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 40% higher.
Lafayette Elementary School is part of a district of 107 schools: Seattle School District No. 1, with 50,773 students.
The student body at Lafayette Elementary School is 61% White. Other reported shares: 16% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 4% Black. A diversity index of 58% means there is a 58% chance two randomly chosen students at Lafayette Elementary School are from different groups.
For every teacher at Lafayette Elementary School, there are about 17.7 students; the school has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is close to this figure. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 16%. It compares with 38% for public schools in King County.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Lafayette Elementary School is +0.6 points: 70.0% actual, 69.5% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for King County show that median household income comes to about $124,746, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 544, with about 278,492 students.
Of the public schools around it, Lafayette Elementary School is closest to West Seattle High School, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 65.2%; Lafayette Elementary School's is 70.0%, ranking 4th of 7.
Locale data from NCES put Lafayette Elementary School inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 103 students, from 429 to 532. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.7:1.
Lafayette Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Seattle School District No. 1
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other schools in SEATTLE
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other Lafayette Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 12 states are named Lafayette Elementary. Lafayette Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 18.
- Lafayette Elementary SchoolWashington, DC · 923 students
- Lafayette ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 827 students
- Lafayette ElementaryFredericksburg, VA · 812 students
- Lafayette Elementary SchoolOxford, MS · 776 students
- LAFAYETTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMAYO, FL · 546 students
Nearby schools
- West Seattle High School0.2 mi · 1,479
- Madison Middle School0.5 mi · 1,017
- Alki Elementary School1.0 mi · 269
- Genesee Hill Elementary1.0 mi · 451
- Pathfinder K-8 School1.8 mi · 402
- Fairmount Park Elementary School1.9 mi · 357
Frequently asked questions
About Lafayette Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lafayette Elementary School?
Lafayette Elementary School enrolls approximately 532 students in grades PK-05.
Is Lafayette Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lafayette Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Lafayette Elementary School have?
Lafayette Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lafayette Elementary School?
At Lafayette Elementary School, the student body is approximately 61% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is Lafayette Elementary School public or private?
Lafayette Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Seattle School District No. 1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.