Meadow Ridge Elementary School

Meadow Ridge Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school in Kent, Washington, part of Kent School District, instructs 423 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Kent School District comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,358 students; Meadow Ridge Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Meadow Ridge Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Asian at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 22% White, 18% Hispanic, 14% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 21% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Meadow Ridge Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of King County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Meadow Ridge Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.2%; this one comes in at 17.1%, -14.1 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for King County shows median household income runs about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Meadow Ridge Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pine Tree Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Meadow Ridge Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadow Ridge Elementary School has contracted 23%, going from 549 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 28% to 22%. Class-load math has grew: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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