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What's the biggest difference between Lindbergh Senior High School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
1,201
High
DISTRICT 901 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530723001077
Lindbergh Senior High School
16426 128th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058 · (425) 204-3200 · King County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,201 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Washington public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.1:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
600 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 281 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 314 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 294 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 312 | 26% |
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
55.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +27.9pp since 2014
Math
28.5%
WA avg 51.2% . +2.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 28 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.7% | 28.5% |
| 2023-24 | 48.7% | 24.6% |
| 2022-23 | 58.0% | 27.1% |
| 2021-22 | 63.9% | 28.8% |
| 2018-19 | 74.1% | 48.3% |
| 2017-18 | 72.5% | 54.3% |
| 2016-17 | 27.0% | 26.7% |
| 2015-16 | 16.0% | 29.0% |
| 2014-15 | 27.8% | 25.9% |
% 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
36.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 Lindbergh Senior High School
Lindbergh Senior High School's state test result (36.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindbergh Senior High School this school | 1,201 | 50.0% | 36.5% |
| Kentwood High School Covington | 1,995 | 50.2% | 38.1% |
| Lynnwood High School BOTHELL | 1,335 | 52.1% | 44.4% |
| Kentridge High School Kent | 2,186 | 42.5% | 52.6% |
| Franklin High School SEATTLE | 1,277 | 57.2% | 37.2% |
| Auburn Mountainview High School Auburn | 1,560 | 58.5% | 37.5% |
Matched among Washington high 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 Lindbergh Senior High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #185 of 271 | #43 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #169 of 321 ▲ 11 | #35 of 59 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #188 of 327 ▲ 51 | #39 of 61 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.3pp | #73 of 259 | #16 of 57 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,201 | #130 of 570 | #43 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #164 of 311 | #32 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.5% | #12 of 316 | #6 of 67 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.0% | #196 of 386 | #28 of 76 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.5% | #120 of 164 | #25 of 34 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,201
-8 (-1%) vs 2020
+10% since 1990-91, when it was 1,091
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 22.8:1
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 | 1,201 | 57.9 | 20.7:1 | 50% (600) |
| 2023-24 | 1,277 | 57.6 | 22.2:1 | 52% (668) |
| 2022-23 | 1,274 | 59.3 | 21.5:1 | 59% (754) |
| 2020-21 | 1,209 | 53 | 22.8:1 | 50% (600) |
| 2017-18 | 1,258 | 54 | 23.3:1 | 48% (603) |
| 2015-16 | 1,257 | 52 | 24.2:1 | 52% (652) |
| 2010-11 | 1,297 | 60 | 21.6:1 | 42% (544) |
| 2000-01 | 1,198 | 52 | 23.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,091 | 47 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lindbergh Senior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (1,258 to 1,201); teachers up 7% (54 to 57.9).
About Lindbergh Senior High School
In Renton, Washington, part of King County, Lindbergh Senior High School is a high school. It enrolls 1,201 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 110% bigger than the 573-student average for high schools in Washington.
Lindbergh Senior High School is in Renton School District, a district with 14,873 students across 29 schools.
Of every 100 students at Lindbergh Senior High School, about 27 are Asian, the largest group. The school is also 26% Hispanic, 19% White, 16% Black, and 9% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 79%.
The school lists 57.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.7:1. The average for high schools in Washington, 21.6:1, is higher. A total of 600 students, or 50%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in King County is 38%.
Among Washington public high schools, Lindbergh Senior High School outscored 16%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Lindbergh Senior High School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 36.5% and a predicted 46.7%.
For the population of King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Lindbergh Senior High School shares King County with 543 other public schools.
Renton Park Elementary School sits about 0.2 miles from Lindbergh Senior High School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Lindbergh Senior High School places 5th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,209 in 2020-21 and 1,201 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 22.8:1 to 20.7:1.
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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 Renton School District
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- McKnight Middle SchoolMiddle · 811 students
- Vera Risdon Middle SchoolMiddle · 751 students
- Dimmitt Middle SchoolMiddle · 605 students
Other schools in Renton
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
- Maywood Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
Other Lindbergh Senior High schools
One other US public school is named Lindbergh Senior High. Lindbergh Senior High School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- LINDBERGH SR. HIGHST. LOUIS, MO · 2,304 students
Nearby schools
- Renton Park Elementary School0.2 mi · 393
- Tiffany Park Elementary School0.9 mi · 379
- Cascade Elementary School0.9 mi · 434
- Impact | Black River Elementary0.9 mi · 209
- Fairwood Elementary School1.2 mi · 355
- Carriage Crest Elementary School1.3 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About Lindbergh Senior High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lindbergh Senior High School?
Lindbergh Senior High School enrolls approximately 1,201 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Lindbergh Senior High School serve?
Lindbergh Senior High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lindbergh Senior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lindbergh Senior High School is approximately 20.7:1 (58 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lindbergh Senior High School?
Lindbergh Senior High School reports a student body of 19% White, 26% Hispanic, 16% Black, 27% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Lindbergh Senior High School in?
Lindbergh Senior High School is part of Renton School District.
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