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Enrollment
444
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530792001310
Melvin G Syre Elementary
19545 12th Avenue N.W., Shoreline, WA 98177 · (206) 393-4165 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL444 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Washington public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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
17.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
71 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
60%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
71.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.4pp since 2014
Math
66.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.3% | 66.7% |
| 2023-24 | 72.5% | 66.7% |
| 2022-23 | 69.8% | 66.8% |
| 2021-22 | 70.9% | 64.3% |
| 2018-19 | 81.0% | 73.2% |
| 2017-18 | 79.9% | 74.9% |
| 2016-17 | 78.7% | 75.9% |
| 2015-16 | 82.2% | 80.3% |
| 2014-15 | 84.7% | 78.3% |
% 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
70.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Melvin G Syre Elementary
Melvin G Syre Elementary's state test result (70.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melvin G Syre Elementary this school | 444 | 16.0% | 70.1% |
| B F Day Elementary School SEATTLE | 394 | 18.5% | 75.8% |
| Fishers Landing Elementary School Vancouver | 402 | 17.9% | N/A |
| Centennial Elementary OLYMPIA | 434 | 21.7% | 65.8% |
| Lake Tapps Elementary Lake Tapps | 460 | 22.2% | 66.8% |
| Pioneer Elementary School OLYMPIA | 384 | 19.8% | 65.2% |
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 Melvin G Syre Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #137 of 936 | #93 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #172 of 1,103 ▼ 12 | #103 of 281 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #137 of 1,102 ▼ 8 | #90 of 280 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.4pp | #474 of 928 | #129 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 444 | #469 of 1,268 | #131 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #849 of 1,085 | #219 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #513 of 1,088 | #219 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.0% | #1,075 of 1,169 | #219 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.8% | #358 of 778 | #115 of 220 |
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
444
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 532
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 444 | 25.9 | 17.1:1 | 16% (71) |
| 2023-24 | 463 | 27.3 | 16.9:1 | 18% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 27.2 | 17.3:1 | 16% (75) |
| 2020-21 | 442 | 27 | 16.4:1 | 13% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 540 | 28.2 | 19.1:1 | 14% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 537 | 26 | 20.6:1 | 16% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 482 | 22 | 21.9:1 | 15% (74) |
| 2000-01 | 513 | 25 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 24 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Melvin G Syre Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (540 to 444); teachers down 8% (28.2 to 25.9).
About Melvin G Syre Elementary
Melvin G Syre Elementary is an elementary school located in Shoreline, Washington, in King County. The grade span is kindergarten through 5, and enrollment is 444 students.
Shoreline School District serves 9,717 students across 18 schools.
White students make up a majority at Melvin G Syre Elementary, at 59%. The remaining shares are 15% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 5% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 60% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 17.1:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 16%. The rate at public schools in King County averages 38%, higher than here.
Measured against Washington public elementary schools, Melvin G Syre Elementary receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
After adjusting for student poverty, Melvin G Syre Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 70.1%; the prediction is 69.5%.
Census Bureau estimates for King County show that the median household income is $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Melvin G Syre Elementary is one of 544 public schools in the county.
Albert Einstein Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles away. The five-mile area around Melvin G Syre Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Melvin G Syre Elementary ranks 2nd of 6 nearby schools, at 70.1% versus a 61.8% average.
Federal data place Melvin G Syre Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 444, close to the 442 recorded in 2020-21.
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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 Shoreline School District
- Shorecrest High SchoolHigh · 1,565 students
- Shorewood High SchoolHigh · 1,544 students
- Albert Einstein Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,032 students
- Kellogg Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 589 students
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
Other schools in Shoreline
- Shorecrest High SchoolHigh · 1,565 students
- Shorewood High SchoolHigh · 1,544 students
- Albert Einstein Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,032 students
- Kellogg Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 589 students
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
Nearby schools
- Albert Einstein Middle School0.5 mi · 1,032
- Scriber Lake High School1.0 mi · 197
- Edmonds Heights K-121.0 mi · 599
- Madrona K-8 School1.1 mi · 636
- Sherwood Elementary1.3 mi · 491
- Echo Lake Elementary School1.6 mi · 416
Frequently asked questions
About Melvin G Syre ElementaryHow large is Melvin G Syre Elementary?
Melvin G Syre Elementary enrolls approximately 444 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Melvin G Syre Elementary serve?
Melvin G Syre Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Melvin G Syre Elementary have?
Melvin G Syre Elementary employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1.
How diverse is Melvin G Syre Elementary?
Melvin G Syre Elementary reports a student body of 59% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% Black, 11% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Melvin G Syre Elementary?
Melvin G Syre Elementary is overseen by Shoreline School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.