Enrollment
272
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1·NCES 530771001198
Laurelhurst Elementary School
4530 46 AV NE, SEATTLE, WA 98105 · (206) 252-5400 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
81 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 58 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 71% larger than its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
66%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
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
58.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -15.1pp since 2014
Math
64.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 15 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.4% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.5% | 58.7% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 62.7% |
| 2021-22 | 62.3% | 57.4% |
| 2018-19 | 75.8% | 73.6% |
| 2017-18 | 72.9% | 68.2% |
| 2016-17 | 69.0% | 74.2% |
| 2015-16 | 67.4% | 78.8% |
| 2014-15 | 73.5% | 73.0% |
% 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
62.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Laurelhurst Elementary School
Laurelhurst Elementary School's state test result (62.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurelhurst Elementary School this school | 272 | 29.8% | 62.5% |
| Sawyer Woods Elementary School Black Diamond | 303 | 29.0% | 58.7% |
| Terrace Park Elementary MTLK TERRACE | 295 | 30.8% | 57.8% |
| Cedar Park Elementary School Seattle | 254 | 33.5% | 72.8% |
| Sacajawea Elementary School SEATTLE | 220 | 31.8% | 55.6% |
| Helen Keller Elementary Kirkland | 300 | 31.3% | 55.5% |
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 Laurelhurst Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #222 of 936 | #125 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #208 of 1,103 ▲ 70 | #115 of 281 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.4% | #333 of 1,102 ▼ 115 | #137 of 280 ▼ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.4pp | #473 of 928 | #128 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #1,021 of 1,268 | #266 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #412 of 1,085 | #96 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #389 of 1,088 | #181 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.8% | #937 of 1,169 | #166 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.2% | #227 of 778 | #80 of 220 |
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
272
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 439
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 272 | 17.8 | 15.3:1 | 30% (81) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 18.6 | 14.8:1 | 34% (94) |
| 2022-23 | 273 | 18.7 | 14.6:1 | 33% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 271 | 20 | 13.6:1 | 26% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 354 | 22.9 | 15.5:1 | 24% (84) |
| 2015-16 | 433 | 25 | 17.3:1 | 12% (50) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 21 | 20.8:1 | 8% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 409 | 20 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 439 | 15 | 29.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Laurelhurst Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (354 to 272); teachers down 22% (22.9 to 17.8).
About Laurelhurst Elementary School
Laurelhurst Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Seattle School District No. 1, located in SEATTLE, Washington. There are 272 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 28% below that mark.
The Seattle School District No. 1 system has 107 schools and 50,773 students.
More than half of the students at Laurelhurst Elementary School are White (53%). Next come 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 12% Asian, and 8% Black. That is in line with King County, where about 55% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
The school lists 17.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 81 students, or 30%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Laurelhurst Elementary School is 2.3 points above its prediction. Actual: 62.5%. Predicted: 60.2%.
For King County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in King County number 544, with about 278,492 students.
Bryant Elementary School is about 0.9 miles from Laurelhurst Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Laurelhurst Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 70.2% proficiency; Laurelhurst Elementary School posts 62.5%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 271 to 272, a small change. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 13.6:1 to 15.3:1.
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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 Laurelhurst Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Laurelhurst Elementary. Laurelhurst Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Laurelhurst Elementary SchoolPortland, OR · 660 students
Nearby schools
- Bryant Elementary School0.9 mi · 470
- Sand Point Elementary1.1 mi · 173
- View Ridge Elementary School1.3 mi · 290
- Eckstein Middle School1.6 mi · 1,024
- Thornton Creek Elementary School1.6 mi · 402
- Stephen Decatur Elementary School1.6 mi · 188
Frequently asked questions
About Laurelhurst Elementary SchoolHow large is Laurelhurst Elementary School?
Laurelhurst Elementary School enrolls approximately 272 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Laurelhurst Elementary School serve?
Laurelhurst Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Laurelhurst Elementary School have?
Laurelhurst Elementary School employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Laurelhurst Elementary School?
Student demographics at Laurelhurst Elementary School are roughly 53% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% Black, 12% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Laurelhurst Elementary School in?
Laurelhurst Elementary School is part of Seattle School District No. 1.
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