Olympic View Elementary School

As a mid-sized elementary school in SEATTLE, Washington, Olympic View Elementary School serves 341 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Seattle School District No. 1.

Within Seattle School District No. 1, which oversees 107 schools and 50,773 students, Olympic View Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Olympic View Elementary School logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Olympic View Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Olympic View Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.8%; this one delivers 55.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for King County indicate median household income runs about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Olympic View Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sacajawea Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olympic View Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Olympic View Elementary School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 67.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 448 students in 2018 compared to 341 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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