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Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423001842
Norman Rockwell Elementary
11125 - 162nd AVE NE, Redmond, WA 98052 · (425) 936-2670 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
40 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 27% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
78.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -14.5pp since 2014
Math
73.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -15.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 14 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 16 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.4% | 73.5% |
| 2023-24 | 72.4% | 74.1% |
| 2022-23 | 85.2% | 82.7% |
| 2021-22 | 85.7% | 86.7% |
| 2018-19 | 85.7% | 86.9% |
| 2017-18 | 84.6% | 85.4% |
| 2016-17 | 88.0% | 88.3% |
| 2015-16 | 90.2% | 86.5% |
| 2014-15 | 92.9% | 89.1% |
% 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
76.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Norman Rockwell Elementary
Norman Rockwell Elementary's state test result (76.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norman Rockwell Elementary this school | 423 | 9.5% | 76.6% |
| Horace Mann Elementary Redmond | 387 | 5.9% | 85.2% |
| Bennett Elementary School Bellevue | 513 | 7.8% | 75.7% |
| Ruby Bridges Elementary Woodinville | 503 | 13.1% | 68.9% |
| Endeavour Elementary School ISSAQUAH | 473 | 10.4% | 87.6% |
| Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary Sammamish | 478 | 5.2% | 81.5% |
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 Norman Rockwell Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.6% | #74 of 936 | #60 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #98 of 1,103 ▼ 6 | #66 of 281 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #67 of 1,102 ▲ 63 | #52 of 280 ▲ 37 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -10.2pp | #34 of 928 | #12 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #540 of 1,268 | #148 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #423 of 1,085 | #98 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #446 of 1,088 | #201 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.5% | #1,131 of 1,169 | #258 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.2% | #78 of 778 | #32 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
423
-91 (-18%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 484
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 423 | 27.6 | 15.3:1 | 9% (40) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 25.6 | 16.8:1 | 7% (32) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 25.8 | 17.2:1 | 6% (27) |
| 2020-21 | 514 | 32 | 16.1:1 | 5% (25) |
| 2017-18 | 633 | 33.5 | 18.9:1 | 4% (24) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 32 | 19.6:1 | 4% (23) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 29 | 20.8:1 | 4% (27) |
| 2000-01 | 473 | 23 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 484 | 22 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Norman Rockwell Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (633 to 423); teachers down 18% (33.5 to 27.6).
About Norman Rockwell Elementary
Norman Rockwell Elementary, located in Redmond, Washington, is a medium-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 423 students.
Federal data list 55 schools in Lake Washington School District, with 30,986 students enrolled.
At Norman Rockwell Elementary, Asian students make up 51% of the student body. After that, the student body is 31% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Census figures show King County is about 21% Asian. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at Norman Rockwell Elementary is 27.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 15.3:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. About 9% of students, or 40, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 38% average for public schools in King County.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Norman Rockwell Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Washington schools: 76.6% actual against 73.9% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for King County show that the median household income is $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Norman Rockwell Elementary, King County has 543 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, Redmond Middle School is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. Norman Rockwell Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 76.6% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 7 nearby schools.
Norman Rockwell Elementary is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
The school enrolled 423 students in 2024-25, 91 fewer than the 514 it had in 2020-21.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Redmond
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
- Rose Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 901 students
- Timberline Middle SchoolMiddle · 788 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Benjamin Rush ElementaryElementary · 631 students
Other Norman Rockwell Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Norman Rockwell Elementary. Norman Rockwell Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- NORMAN ROCKWELL ELEM SCHOOLOMAHA, NE · 310 students
Nearby schools
- Redmond Middle School0.6 mi · 1,009
- Horace Mann Elementary0.8 mi · 387
- Clara Barton Elementary School0.9 mi · 452
- Redmond High School0.9 mi · 2,304
- Albert Einstein Elementary1.2 mi · 448
- Old Redmond Schoolhouse1.7 mi · 190
Frequently asked questions
About Norman Rockwell ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Norman Rockwell Elementary?
Norman Rockwell Elementary enrolls approximately 423 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Norman Rockwell Elementary serve?
Norman Rockwell Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Norman Rockwell Elementary?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Norman Rockwell Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Norman Rockwell Elementary?
Student demographics at Norman Rockwell Elementary are roughly 31% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 51% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Norman Rockwell Elementary public or private?
Norman Rockwell Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Washington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.