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Enrollment
549
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530039000077
Newport Heights Elementary
5225 119th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98006 · (425) 456-5500 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL549 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% 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.
- ABeats 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
19.1:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
146 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 77 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
66%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
72.6%
WA avg 58.4% . +4.4pp since 2014
Math
75.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 75.1% |
| 2023-24 | 79.3% | 74.5% |
| 2022-23 | 77.0% | 74.5% |
| 2021-22 | 72.3% | 71.4% |
| 2018-19 | 73.5% | 74.1% |
| 2017-18 | 75.6% | 78.9% |
| 2016-17 | 73.7% | 73.2% |
| 2015-16 | 74.2% | 77.1% |
| 2014-15 | 68.2% | 75.5% |
% 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
76.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% 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 14 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 Newport Heights Elementary
Newport Heights Elementary's state test result (76.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Heights Elementary this school | 549 | 26.6% | 76.2% |
| Woodridge Elementary Bellevue | 554 | 23.1% | 83.2% |
| Redmond Elementary Redmond | 543 | 29.7% | 65.7% |
| Clyde Hill Elementary Bellevue | 594 | 20.9% | 68.4% |
| Clara Barton Elementary School Redmond | 452 | 16.6% | 78.7% |
| Cedar Wood Elementary Bothell | 682 | 22.6% | 84.4% |
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 Newport Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #76 of 936 | #62 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #84 of 1,103 ▲ 4 | #60 of 281 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #126 of 1,102 ▼ 63 | #85 of 280 ▼ 34 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #432 of 928 | #112 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 549 | #173 of 1,268 | #43 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #1,043 of 1,085 | #268 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #397 of 1,088 | #184 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.6% | #973 of 1,169 | #177 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.3% | #595 of 778 | #180 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
549
+100 (+22%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 484
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 549 | 28.8 | 19.1:1 | 27% (146) |
| 2023-24 | 444 | 22 | 20.1:1 | 26% (116) |
| 2022-23 | 411 | 24 | 17.1:1 | 23% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 449 | 32 | 14.0:1 | 19% (85) |
| 2017-18 | 599 | 36.8 | 16.3:1 | 21% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 34 | 18.8:1 | 21% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 568 | 27 | 21.0:1 | 21% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 477 | 21 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 484 | 20 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Newport Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (599 to 549); teachers down 22% (36.8 to 28.8).
About Newport Heights Elementary
Federal records list Newport Heights Elementary as an elementary school in Bellevue, Washington. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 549 students in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Bellevue School District counts 30 schools and 20,339 students, including Newport Heights Elementary.
Asian students are 51% of those enrolled at Newport Heights Elementary. The remaining shares are 25% White, 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the Asian share of King County's population at about 21%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, Newport Heights Elementary has a ratio of 19.1:1. Compared with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 27%. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in King County, the school's rate is lower.
Newport Heights Elementary holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 96% of Washington public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Newport Heights Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Washington schools. It scores 76.2%; the prediction is 62.4%.
In the wider King County area, median household income comes to about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. King County counts 544 public schools with about 278,492 students.
A public school about 0.9 miles away, Newport Senior High School, is the closest to Newport Heights Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Newport Heights Elementary. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Newport Heights Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Newport Heights Elementary as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school grew from 449 students in 2020-21 to 549 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.0:1 to 19.1:1.
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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 Bellevue School District
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other schools in Bellevue
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other Newport Heights Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Newport Heights Elementary. Newport Heights Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Newport Heights ElementaryNewport Beach, CA · 502 students
Nearby schools
- Newport Senior High School0.9 mi · 1,850
- Vera Risdon Middle School1.0 mi · 751
- Hazelwood Elementary School1.2 mi · 478
- Somerset Elementary School1.4 mi · 741
- Tyee Middle School1.6 mi · 1,007
- Island Park Elementary2.0 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Newport Heights ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Newport Heights Elementary?
Newport Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 549 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Newport Heights Elementary serve?
Newport Heights Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Newport Heights Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Newport Heights Elementary is approximately 19.1:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Newport Heights Elementary?
At Newport Heights Elementary, the student body is approximately 25% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black, 51% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Newport Heights Elementary public or private?
Newport Heights Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bellevue School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.