Parkwood Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary campus in Shoreline, Washington, Parkwood Elementary instructs 390 students from grades K through 5, part of Shoreline School District.

Shoreline School District runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,717 students. Parkwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Parkwood Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Parkwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Parkwood Elementary sits in the top 10% of Washington schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.1%; actual is 65.5%, +14.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (King County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Parkwood Elementary is one.

Edwin Pratt Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parkwood Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 465 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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