Enrollment
392
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1·NCES 530771001205
Lowell Elementary School
1058 E MERCER ST, SEATTLE, WA 98102 · (206) 252-3020 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
282 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
76%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
29.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.2pp since 2014
Math
27.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 4 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 | 29.8% | 27.6% |
| 2023-24 | 27.5% | 32.4% |
| 2022-23 | 43.9% | 36.0% |
| 2021-22 | 36.7% | 30.3% |
| 2018-19 | 49.1% | 41.8% |
| 2017-18 | 34.8% | 21.0% |
| 2016-17 | 35.1% | 29.2% |
| 2015-16 | 44.8% | 34.0% |
| 2014-15 | 33.9% | 34.3% |
% 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
30.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Lowell Elementary School
Lowell Elementary School's state test result (30.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowell Elementary School this school | 392 | 71.9% | 30.6% |
| Bow Lake Elementary SeaTac | 524 | 75.6% | 18.1% |
| Campbell Hill Elementary School Seattle | 345 | 70.7% | 39.9% |
| McMicken Heights Elementary SeaTac | 484 | 76.0% | 34.7% |
| Reed Elementary School Tacoma | 426 | 72.5% | 27.7% |
| Dower Elementary School Lakewood | 337 | 74.5% | 29.6% |
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 Lowell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #792 of 936 | #241 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.6% | #916 of 1,103 ▼ 103 | #243 of 281 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #947 of 1,102 ▲ 28 | #243 of 280 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.8pp | #154 of 928 | #47 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #667 of 1,268 | #185 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #6 of 1,085 | #4 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.3% | #108 of 1,088 | #59 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.9% | #225 of 1,169 | #41 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.9% | #161 of 257 | #32 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
392
+114 (+41%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 266
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 9.0:1
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 | 392 | 36 | 10.9:1 | 72% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 382 | 33.4 | 11.4:1 | 76% (292) |
| 2022-23 | 331 | 28.6 | 11.6:1 | 70% (231) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 31 | 9.0:1 | 60% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 370 | 28.2 | 13.1:1 | 64% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 333 | 24 | 13.9:1 | 43% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 561 | 29 | 19.3:1 | 16% (92) |
| 2000-01 | 406 | 23 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 266 | 20 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lowell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (370 to 392); teachers up 28% (28.2 to 36).
About Lowell Elementary School
Students in SEATTLE, Washington, attend Lowell Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 392 students enrolled.
District-wide, Seattle School District No. 1 has 107 schools and 50,773 students.
The student body at Lowell Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 32%. Next come 30% Hispanic, 13% White, 13% Asian, and 8% multiracial. The county population is about 7% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 76%.
With 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.9:1. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Lowell Elementary School, 72% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in King County average 38%.
After adjusting for student poverty, Lowell Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 30.6%; the prediction is 31.9%.
In King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Lowell Elementary School.
Lowell Elementary School's nearest public school is Edmonds S. Meany Middle School (about 0.6 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lowell Elementary School. On state test proficiency, Lowell Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 5 nearby schools.
For locale, NCES codes Lowell Elementary School as City: Large.
Lowell Elementary School enrolled 278 in 2020-21 and 392 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.9:1) than in 2020-21 (9.0:1).
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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
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- 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 Lowell Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 15 states are named Lowell Elementary. Lowell Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 25.
- Lowell ElementaryEverett, WA · 531 students
- Lowell Elementary SchoolBellingham, WA · 338 students
- Lowell Elementary SchoolTacoma, WA · 331 students
- Lowell ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 609 students
- Lowell Elementary SchoolWaterloo, IA · 538 students
Nearby schools
- Edmonds S. Meany Middle School0.6 mi · 504
- Stevens Elementary School0.7 mi · 150
- Seattle World School0.9 mi · 218
- Tops K-8 School1.3 mi · 447
- Montlake Elementary School1.3 mi · 170
- Nova High School1.4 mi · 256
Frequently asked questions
About Lowell Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lowell Elementary School?
Lowell Elementary School enrolls approximately 392 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lowell Elementary School serve?
Lowell Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lowell Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lowell Elementary School is approximately 10.9:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lowell Elementary School?
Student demographics at Lowell Elementary School are roughly 13% White, 30% Hispanic, 32% Black, 13% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Lowell Elementary School in?
Lowell Elementary School is part of Seattle School District No. 1.
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