Naval Avenue Elementary School

Naval Avenue Elementary School is one of the small K-5 schools in Bremerton, Washington, overseen by Bremerton School District, with 269 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Bremerton School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,383 students. Naval Avenue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Naval Avenue Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, Naval Avenue Elementary School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kitsap County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Naval Avenue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kitsap County) shows that median household earnings sit near $104,158, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Kitsap County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), of which Naval Avenue Elementary School is one.

Bremerton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Naval Avenue Elementary School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Naval Avenue Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Naval Avenue Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 269).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Naval Avenue Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.