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How has Olympic View Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000447
Olympic View Elementary School
2626 SW 327TH ST, FEDERAL WAY, WA 98023 · (253) 945-3500 · King County
GRADES KG–07ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% 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
17.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
452 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 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 28 | 5% |
| Grade 7 | 17 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 435% larger than its 7th grade class (17).
Student demographics
74%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
23.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -5.9pp since 2014
Math
17.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -12.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 13 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.8% | 17.8% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 14.1% |
| 2022-23 | 22.5% | 15.8% |
| 2021-22 | 22.9% | 18.0% |
| 2018-19 | 33.2% | 32.7% |
| 2017-18 | 31.6% | 29.4% |
| 2016-17 | 29.1% | 30.1% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 38.5% |
| 2014-15 | 29.7% | 30.6% |
% 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
20.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% 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 Olympic View Elementary School
Olympic View Elementary School's state test result (20.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic View Elementary School this school | 547 | 82.6% | 20.9% |
| Kent Elementary School Kent | 438 | 81.5% | 26.9% |
| Wildwood Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 598 | 79.1% | 32.7% |
| Lakeview Hope Academy Lakewood | 540 | 84.1% | 25.9% |
| Four Heroes Elementary Lakewood | 541 | 84.7% | 29.1% |
| Mirror Lake Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 491 | 82.3% | 21.9% |
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 Olympic View Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #904 of 936 | #271 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #1,058 of 1,103 ▲ 13 | #273 of 281 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #1,037 of 1,102 ▲ 21 | #267 of 280 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.4pp | #533 of 928 | #148 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #179 of 1,268 | #45 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #864 of 1,085 | #226 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.5% | #155 of 1,088 | #92 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.6% | #90 of 1,169 | #5 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.8% | #52 of 257 | #15 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
547
+99 (+22%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 518
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 547 | 31.8 | 17.2:1 | 83% (452) |
| 2023-24 | 474 | 30.2 | 15.7:1 | 84% (400) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 27 | 15.7:1 | 84% (357) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 80% (357) |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 31 | 14.5:1 | 86% (387) |
| 2015-16 | 416 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 74% (309) |
| 2010-11 | 354 | 24 | 14.8:1 | 64% (227) |
| 2000-01 | 494 | 24 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 518 | 24 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Olympic View Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (449 to 547); teachers up 3% (31 to 31.8).
About Olympic View Elementary School
Olympic View Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in FEDERAL WAY, Washington, (ZIP code 98023). It educates 547 students in kindergarten through 7. The school's enrollment is 44% larger than the 380 average for elementary schools in Washington.
Federal Way School District, which runs Olympic View Elementary School, has 43 schools and 22,250 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Olympic View Elementary School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 44%. Smaller groups are 14% Black, 14% multiracial, 11% White, and 9% Pacific Islander. For comparison, the population of King County is roughly 11% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 74%, meaning two students picked at random have a 74% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 31.8 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 17.2:1. That matches the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington fairly closely. Olympic View Elementary School reports 83% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in King County report 38%.
Olympic View Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of Washington public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Olympic View Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 20.9% and a predicted 24.8%.
King County has about 2,287,171 residents, and the median household income is $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Olympic View Elementary School, King County has 543 other public schools.
Decatur High School is located about 0.5 miles from Olympic View Elementary School. The five-mile area around Olympic View Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Olympic View Elementary School comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place Olympic View Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 547 students in 2024-25, 99 more than the 448 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.9:1 in 2020-21 to 17.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 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 Olympic View Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 2 states are named Olympic View Elementary. Olympic View Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Olympic View ElementaryLacey, WA · 552 students
- Olympic View ElemOak Harbor, WA · 411 students
- Olympic View Elementary SchoolSEATTLE, WA · 341 students
- Olympic View ElementaryChula Vista, CA · 544 students
Nearby schools
- Decatur High School0.5 mi · 1,352
- Employment Transition Program0.5 mi · 62
- Silver Lake Elementary School0.7 mi · 382
- Brigadoon Elementary School0.9 mi · 366
- Lakota Middle School0.9 mi · 645
- Technology Access Foundation Academy at Saghalie1.0 mi · 532
Frequently asked questions
About Olympic View Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Olympic View Elementary School?
Olympic View Elementary School enrolls approximately 547 students in grades KG-07.
What grades does Olympic View Elementary School serve?
Olympic View Elementary School serves grades KG-07.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Olympic View Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Olympic View Elementary School is approximately 17.2:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Olympic View Elementary School?
At Olympic View Elementary School, the student body is approximately 11% White, 44% Hispanic, 14% Black, 8% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Olympic View Elementary School public or private?
Olympic View 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.