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What advice would you give to incoming students at Mount View Elementary?
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Enrollment
460
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530354000539
Mount View Elementary
10811 12th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98146 · (206) 631-4500 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
292 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 65 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
30.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.8pp since 2014
Math
25.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.8% | 25.4% |
| 2023-24 | 26.9% | 29.2% |
| 2022-23 | 24.4% | 19.3% |
| 2021-22 | 24.7% | 17.1% |
| 2018-19 | 28.6% | 23.1% |
| 2017-18 | 35.7% | 31.4% |
| 2016-17 | 36.9% | 32.9% |
| 2015-16 | 35.0% | 32.8% |
| 2014-15 | 32.6% | 32.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Mount View Elementary
Mount View Elementary's state test result (27.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount View Elementary this school | 460 | 63.5% | 27.6% |
| Hazel Valley Elementary Burien | 469 | 67.0% | 24.2% |
| Gildo Rey Elementary School AUBURN | 416 | 72.6% | 36.3% |
| Highlands Elementary School Renton | 386 | 70.2% | 25.6% |
| Armin Jahr Elementary Bremerton | 495 | 65.5% | 27.6% |
| Cedarhurst Elementary Burien | 399 | 69.9% | 26.5% |
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 Mount View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.6% | #835 of 936 | #248 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #956 of 1,103 ▼ 89 | #253 of 281 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #925 of 1,102 ▲ 60 | #239 of 280 ▲ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.2pp | #164 of 928 | #39 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 460 | #410 of 1,268 | #111 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #946 of 1,085 | #241 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #620 of 1,088 | #238 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.5% | #380 of 1,169 | #73 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.9% | #99 of 778 | #41 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
460
-26 (-5%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 505
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 460 | 25.9 | 17.8:1 | 63% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 24 | 17.6:1 | 69% (292) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 23.5 | 18.1:1 | 76% (322) |
| 2020-21 | 486 | 28 | 17.4:1 | 51% (247) |
| 2017-18 | 666 | 37.7 | 17.7:1 | 65% (436) |
| 2015-16 | 658 | 39 | 16.9:1 | 78% (512) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 33 | 17.5:1 | 73% (424) |
| 2000-01 | 455 | 25 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 505 | 22 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount View Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (666 to 460); teachers down 31% (37.7 to 25.9).
About Mount View Elementary
Mount View Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of Seattle, Washington. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 460 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 380 students, so this school is 21% above average.
Highline School District is the district for Mount View Elementary. It has 36 schools and 18,072 students.
At Mount View Elementary, Hispanic students make up 64% of the student body. After that, the student body is 11% White, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial, and 7% Black. Census figures show King County is about 11% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Mount View Elementary and a ratio of 17.8:1. That is close to the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 63% of enrollment. On average, public schools in King County report 38%.
Mount View Elementary's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (27.6%) and its predicted rate (37.6%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools.
King County has about 2,287,171 residents, and the median household income is $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Besides Mount View Elementary, King County has 543 other public schools.
Cascade Middle School is located about 0.4 miles from Mount View Elementary. The five-mile area around Mount View Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 27.6% average proficiency ranks 4th among 6 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, Mount View Elementary's enrollment declined 5%, to 460.
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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 Highline School District
- Mount Rainier High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Evergreen High SchoolHigh · 1,080 students
- Glacier Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 671 students
- Tyee High SchoolHigh · 644 students
Other schools in Seattle
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other Mount View Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Mount View Elementary. Mount View Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- MOUNT VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA, NE · 324 students
Nearby schools
- Cascade Middle School0.4 mi · 671
- Evergreen High School0.5 mi · 1,080
- White Center Heights Elementary0.6 mi · 527
- Highline Open Doors 14180.8 mi · 240
- Shorewood Elementary1.0 mi · 400
- Highline Public Schools Virtual Academy1.0 mi · 208
Frequently asked questions
About Mount View ElementaryHow large is Mount View Elementary?
Mount View Elementary enrolls approximately 460 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mount View Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mount View Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Mount View Elementary have?
Mount View Elementary employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Mount View Elementary?
Student demographics at Mount View Elementary are roughly 11% White, 64% Hispanic, 7% Black, 9% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Mount View Elementary public or private?
Mount View Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Highline School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.