Laurelhurst Elementary School

As a small elementary campus in SEATTLE, Washington, Laurelhurst Elementary School works with 272 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Seattle School District No. 1. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 380.

Across the 107 schools in Seattle School District No. 1 (50,773 students total), Laurelhurst Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Laurelhurst Elementary School reports that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Laurelhurst Elementary School lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Laurelhurst Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Laurelhurst Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.2%, the actual is 62.5%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for King County indicate median household income runs about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Laurelhurst Elementary School is one.

Bryant Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Laurelhurst Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Laurelhurst Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.2%.

Laurelhurst Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 354 students in 2018 compared to 272 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 64% to 53%.

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