Ordway Elementary

As a close-knit elementary campus in Bainbridge Island, Washington, Ordway Elementary works with 320 students from grades K through 4, run under Bainbridge Island School District.

Bainbridge Island School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 3,514 students. Ordway Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ordway Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, Ordway Elementary records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Kitsap County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ordway Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 73.8%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kitsap County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,158 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Kitsap County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), Ordway Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bainbridge Special Education Services is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ordway Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ordway Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 80.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Ordway Elementary's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 320). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 72% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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