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If you had an hour of school board time for Meridian Park Elementary School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
589
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530792000404
Meridian Park Elementary School
17077 Meridian Avenue N., Shoreline, WA 98133 · (206) 393-4251 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL589 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% 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.
- 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
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
202 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 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 124 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 126 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 44% smaller than its 5th grade class (126).
Student demographics
75%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
81.1%
WA avg 58.4% . +6.4pp since 2014
Math
78.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +10.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.1% | 78.8% |
| 2023-24 | 78.4% | 79.9% |
| 2022-23 | 83.1% | 79.1% |
| 2021-22 | 79.8% | 77.9% |
| 2018-19 | 78.4% | 77.7% |
| 2017-18 | 80.0% | 77.2% |
| 2016-17 | 78.9% | 75.2% |
| 2015-16 | 82.2% | 77.9% |
| 2014-15 | 74.7% | 68.5% |
% 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
79.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% 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 22 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 Meridian Park Elementary School
Meridian Park Elementary School's state test result (79.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Park Elementary School this school | 589 | 34.3% | 79.7% |
| Bowman Creek Elementary Auburn | 440 | 35.0% | 55.6% |
| G W Edgerton Elementary Puyallup | 753 | 37.6% | 47.9% |
| Columbia Elementary Mukilteo | 596 | 33.2% | 58.5% |
| Lakeland Hills Elementary AUBURN | 512 | 35.7% | 62.9% |
| Ridgecrest Elementary Shoreline | 424 | 38.0% | 53.9% |
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 Meridian Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.7% | #51 of 936 | #41 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #55 of 1,103 ▼ 9 | #43 of 281 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.1% | #45 of 1,102 ▲ 25 | #37 of 280 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.1pp | #494 of 928 | #135 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 589 | #117 of 1,268 | #27 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #850 of 1,085 | #220 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.3% | #133 of 1,088 | #77 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.3% | #877 of 1,169 | #154 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.9% | #274 of 778 | #93 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
589
+99 (+20%) vs 2020
-17% since 2000-01, when it was 709
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 589 | 34.4 | 17.1:1 | 34% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 512 | 34.5 | 14.8:1 | 35% (180) |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 31.2 | 16.9:1 | 37% (197) |
| 2020-21 | 490 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 29% (143) |
| 2017-18 | 745 | 38.4 | 19.4:1 | 28% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 561 | 28 | 20.0:1 | 30% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 30 | 19.2:1 | 30% (170) |
| 2000-01 | 709 | 36 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meridian Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (745 to 589); teachers down 10% (38.4 to 34.4).
About Meridian Park Elementary School
Meridian Park Elementary School is a large elementary school with its address in Shoreline, Washington. Enrollment stands at 589 students, covering kindergarten through 5. That is 55% above the average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
Shoreline School District (18 schools, 9,717 students) runs Meridian Park Elementary School.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Meridian Park Elementary School is White, with 40% of students. The remaining shares are 19% Asian, 16% multiracial, 13% Black, and 12% Hispanic. King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school's share is lower. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Meridian Park Elementary School scores 75%.
For every teacher at Meridian Park Elementary School, there are about 17.1 students; the school has 34.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 34%.
Meridian Park Elementary School holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 97% of Washington public elementary schools.
A school in Washington with Meridian Park Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 57.2%. Meridian Park Elementary School scores 79.7%.
Looking at the county, King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Meridian Park Elementary School.
Edwin Pratt Learning Center, about 0.1 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Meridian Park Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 490 (2020-21) to 589 (2024-25). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 15.8:1 to 17.1:1.
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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
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
- Melvin G Syre ElementaryElementary · 444 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
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
- Melvin G Syre ElementaryElementary · 444 students
Nearby schools
- Edwin Pratt Learning Center0.1 mi · 318
- Shorewood High School0.6 mi · 1,544
- Handicapped Contractual Services0.8 mi · 155
- Ridgecrest Elementary0.9 mi · 424
- Parkwood Elementary1.0 mi · 390
- Echo Lake Elementary School1.0 mi · 416
Frequently asked questions
About Meridian Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Meridian Park Elementary School?
Meridian Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 589 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Meridian Park Elementary School serve?
Meridian Park Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Meridian Park Elementary School have?
Meridian Park Elementary School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Meridian Park Elementary School?
At Meridian Park Elementary School, the student body is approximately 40% White, 12% Hispanic, 13% Black, 19% Asian, 16% Two or more.
What district is Meridian Park Elementary School in?
Meridian Park Elementary School is part of Shoreline School District.
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