Manchester Elementary School

Manchester Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary-level community in PORT ORCHARD, Washington, operated by South Kitsap School District. The school caters to 458 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Manchester Elementary School sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Within South Kitsap School District, which oversees 17 schools and 9,326 students, Manchester Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Manchester Elementary School records that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 13% multiracial, 13% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Manchester Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Manchester Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kitsap County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,158 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kitsap County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), of which Manchester Elementary School is one.

South Colby Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Manchester Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Manchester Elementary School has ticked up 37%, going from 334 students in 2018 to 458 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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