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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000443
Mirror Lake Elementary School
625 S 314TH ST, FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 · (253) 945-3300 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Washington public elementary schools
- FTest 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.
- 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
15.8:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
404 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
26.5%
WA avg 58.4% . -26.9pp since 2014
Math
22.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -28.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 27 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 29 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.5% | 22.6% |
| 2023-24 | 19.6% | 19.7% |
| 2022-23 | 31.1% | 17.6% |
| 2021-22 | 30.7% | 25.4% |
| 2018-19 | 44.6% | 45.0% |
| 2017-18 | 47.8% | 42.5% |
| 2016-17 | 46.6% | 44.3% |
| 2015-16 | 59.3% | 52.7% |
| 2014-15 | 53.4% | 51.4% |
% 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
21.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Mirror Lake Elementary School
Mirror Lake Elementary School's state test result (21.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirror Lake Elementary School this school | 491 | 82.3% | 21.9% |
| Midway Elementary Des Moines | 548 | 78.1% | 13.9% |
| Beverly Park Elem at Glendale Seattle | 411 | 77.1% | 26.0% |
| Olympic View Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 547 | 82.6% | 20.9% |
| Kent Elementary School Kent | 438 | 81.5% | 26.9% |
| Federal Way Public School ECEAP Federal Way | 348 | 80.7% | N/A |
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 Mirror Lake Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.9% | #892 of 936 | #268 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #996 of 1,103 ▲ 34 | #263 of 281 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #1,001 of 1,102 ▲ 60 | #256 of 280 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #194 of 928 | #56 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #318 of 1,268 | #84 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #549 of 1,085 | #135 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.4% | #56 of 1,088 | #32 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.3% | #95 of 1,169 | #6 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #247 of 257 | #53 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
491
+64 (+15%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 690
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
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 | 491 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 82% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 89% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 28.5 | 16.0:1 | 87% (396) |
| 2020-21 | 427 | 27 | 15.8:1 | 87% (371) |
| 2017-18 | 487 | 30 | 16.2:1 | 90% (436) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 27 | 16.1:1 | 71% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 449 | 26 | 17.3:1 | 53% (239) |
| 2000-01 | 522 | 27 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 690 | 27 | 25.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mirror Lake Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (487 to 491); teachers up 3% (30 to 31).
About Mirror Lake Elementary School
Mirror Lake Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school based in FEDERAL WAY, Washington. The school enrolls 491 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
Federal Way School District has 43 schools and 22,250 students, and Mirror Lake Elementary School is one of those schools.
The student body at Mirror Lake Elementary School has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 35%. Enrollment also includes 18% Black, 15% multiracial, 14% Asian, and 13% White. The school's Hispanic share is 24 points above the 11% share among King County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 78%.
There are 31 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 15.8:1. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average ratio is 17.3:1. Of all students at Mirror Lake Elementary School, 82% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Mirror Lake Elementary School outscored 4%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Mirror Lake Elementary School is 3.1 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (21.9% versus 25.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
For the population of King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Mirror Lake Elementary School shares King County with 543 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Federal Way High School is about 0.7 miles from Mirror Lake Elementary School. The five-mile area around Mirror Lake Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 26.0% proficiency; Mirror Lake Elementary School posts 21.9%.
Mirror Lake Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
A 15% rise took enrollment from 427 in 2020-21 to 491 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about Mirror Lake Elementary School, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in FEDERAL WAY
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Illahee Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Lakota Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
Other Mirror Lake Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mirror Lake Elementary. Mirror Lake Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- MIRROR LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPLANTATION, FL · 639 students
- Mirror Lake Elementary SchoolVilla Rica, GA · 554 students
Nearby schools
- Federal Way High School0.7 mi · 1,665
- Lake Grove Elementary School0.7 mi · 390
- Federal Way Public School ECEAP1.0 mi · 348
- Gateway to College1.0 mi · 23
- Federal Way Running Start Home School1.0 mi · 17
- Support School1.0 mi · 55
Frequently asked questions
About Mirror Lake Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mirror Lake Elementary School?
Mirror Lake Elementary School enrolls approximately 491 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mirror Lake Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mirror Lake Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Mirror Lake Elementary School?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Mirror Lake Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mirror Lake Elementary School?
At Mirror Lake Elementary School, the student body is approximately 13% White, 35% Hispanic, 18% Black, 14% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is Mirror Lake Elementary School public or private?
Mirror Lake Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Federal Way School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.