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What tradition at Medina Elementary School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
591
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530039000076
Medina Elementary School
8001 NE 8TH ST., MEDINA, WA 98039 · (425) 456-5400 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL591 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Washington public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
33 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 | 29 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
92.2%
WA avg 58.4% . +5.1pp since 2014
Math
93.5%
WA avg 51.2% . +4.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.2% | 93.5% |
| 2023-24 | 93.0% | 93.9% |
| 2022-23 | 94.5% | 94.1% |
| 2021-22 | 94.0% | 91.7% |
| 2018-19 | 89.6% | 91.2% |
| 2017-18 | 94.8% | 92.1% |
| 2016-17 | 93.4% | 94.0% |
| 2015-16 | 90.1% | 93.4% |
| 2014-15 | 87.1% | 88.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 76% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Medina Elementary School
Medina Elementary School's state test result (92.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medina Elementary School this school | 591 | 5.6% | 92.5% |
| Cherry Crest Elementary School Bellevue | 553 | 4.7% | 88.3% |
| Samantha Smith Elementary Sammamish | 545 | 3.3% | 87.1% |
| Louisa May Alcott Elementary Redmond | 615 | 5.4% | 86.3% |
| Kokanee Elementary Woodinville | 651 | 6.8% | 79.5% |
| Benjamin Rush Elementary Redmond | 631 | 9.7% | 78.6% |
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 Medina Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.5% | #2 of 936 | #2 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.5% | #3 of 1,103 no change | #3 of 281 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.2% | #5 of 1,102 ▼ 2 | #5 of 280 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #551 of 928 | #157 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 591 | #116 of 1,268 | #26 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.5:1 | #1,075 of 1,085 | #277 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.9% | #844 of 1,088 | #269 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.6% | #1,154 of 1,169 | #278 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.2% | #63 of 257 | #20 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
591
+117 (+25%) vs 2020
+59% since 1990-91, when it was 372
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 591 | 27.5 | 21.5:1 | 6% (33) |
| 2023-24 | 555 | 25.2 | 22.1:1 | 3% (19) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 20.5 | 21.9:1 | 4% (17) |
| 2020-21 | 474 | 27 | 17.6:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 25.4 | 19.5:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2015-16 | 570 | 29 | 19.7:1 | 2% (11) |
| 2010-11 | 546 | 25 | 21.8:1 | 6% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 404 | 19 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 372 | 15 | 24.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Medina Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (496 to 591); teachers up 8% (25.4 to 27.5).
About Medina Elementary School
Medina Elementary School is a public elementary school in MEDINA, Washington. A total of 591 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. Against the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington, enrollment here is 56% higher.
Bellevue School District has 30 schools; together they serve 20,339 students.
Medina Elementary School is 71% Asian by enrollment. Other reported shares: 18% White, 8% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. That compares with about 21% Asian among all King County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 21.5:1 comes from the school's 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The lunch program counts 6% of students at Medina Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in King County, the school's rate is lower.
Measured against Washington public elementary schools, Medina Elementary School receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Medina Elementary School are 16.0 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 92.5%, compared with a predicted 76.5%, which ranks in the top 10% in Washington.
In the county around the school, King County, the median household income is $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. King County is home to 544 public schools and about 278,492 public school students.
Chinook Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Medina Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 67.5% on proficiency, and Medina Elementary School is above that at 92.5%.
The NCES locale for Medina Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has grown by 117 students since 2020-21, to 591. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 21.5:1, from 17.6:1.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Bellevue School District
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other Medina Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Medina Elementary. Medina Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- MEDINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMedina, ND · 103 students
Nearby schools
- Chinook Middle School1.3 mi · 752
- Clyde Hill Elementary1.4 mi · 594
- Bellevue High School1.9 mi · 1,683
- Enatai Elementary School2.5 mi · 518
- Bellevue Digital Discovery2.6 mi · 229
- Central Educational Services2.6 mi · 66
Frequently asked questions
About Medina Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Medina Elementary School?
Medina Elementary School enrolls approximately 591 students in grades PK-05.
Is Medina Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Medina Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Medina Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Medina Elementary School is approximately 21.5:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Medina Elementary School?
At Medina Elementary School, the student body is approximately 18% White, 3% Hispanic, 0% Black, 71% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Medina Elementary School public or private?
Medina Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bellevue School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.