Mark Twain Elementary School

Mark Twain Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school in FEDERAL WAY, Washington, operated by Federal Way School District. The school caters to 531 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Mark Twain Elementary School sits 40% above that benchmark.

Across the 43 schools in Federal Way School District (22,250 students total), Mark Twain Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mark Twain Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Asian, 20% Black, 12% multiracial, 7% Pacific Islander. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mark Twain Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mark Twain Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 22.9%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (King County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mark Twain Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Woodmont K-8 School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mark Twain Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mark Twain Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 537 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 43% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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