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What tradition at Parkwood Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530792001313
Parkwood Elementary
1815 N. 155th Street, Shoreline, WA 98133 · (206) 393-4150 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of Washington public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
14.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
169 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
67.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.2pp since 2014
Math
63.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.7% | 63.9% |
| 2023-24 | 67.3% | 62.2% |
| 2022-23 | 72.9% | 70.8% |
| 2021-22 | 71.2% | 65.5% |
| 2018-19 | 72.3% | 70.2% |
| 2017-18 | 71.7% | 71.6% |
| 2016-17 | 70.8% | 69.6% |
| 2015-16 | 78.5% | 77.3% |
| 2014-15 | 71.9% | 74.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Parkwood Elementary
Parkwood Elementary's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkwood Elementary this school | 390 | 43.3% | 65.5% |
| Echo Lake Elementary School Shoreline | 416 | 46.4% | 51.6% |
| Fairwood Elementary School Renton | 355 | 41.4% | 43.6% |
| Olympic View Elementary School SEATTLE | 341 | 39.3% | 55.2% |
| Beverly Elementary Lynnwood | 413 | 47.7% | 35.4% |
| Carter Lake Elementary School JBLM McChord Field | 420 | 46.7% | 50.0% |
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 Parkwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #187 of 936 | #112 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #209 of 1,103 ▲ 17 | #116 of 281 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #190 of 1,102 ▲ 5 | #102 of 280 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.6pp | #249 of 928 | #78 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #674 of 1,268 | #190 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #252 of 1,085 | #62 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.7% | #125 of 1,088 | #73 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.3% | #749 of 1,169 | #127 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #401 of 778 | #128 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
390
+24 (+7%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 390 | 26.8 | 14.6:1 | 43% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 25.7 | 15.8:1 | 41% (167) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 26.6 | 15.7:1 | 37% (156) |
| 2020-21 | 366 | 26 | 14.1:1 | 29% (107) |
| 2017-18 | 465 | 27.3 | 17.1:1 | 34% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 24 | 18.5:1 | 38% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 429 | 23 | 18.6:1 | 46% (198) |
| 2000-01 | 450 | 27 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 23 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (465 to 390); teachers down 2% (27.3 to 26.8).
About Parkwood Elementary
Parkwood Elementary is an elementary school in Shoreline, Washington, and it is part of Shoreline School District. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 390 students.
Shoreline School District is responsible for 18 schools, Parkwood Elementary included, with 9,717 students in all.
Of every 100 students at Parkwood Elementary, about 37 are White, the largest group. The school is also 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 12% multiracial, and 11% Asian. That is lower than the 55% White share among all King County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 76%.
On staff are 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1. Elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1, 2.7 more students per teacher than here. Parkwood Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 43%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Parkwood Elementary outscored 86%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Parkwood Elementary does better than predicted by 14.3 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 65.5%; the prediction is 51.1%.
Looking at the county, King County, median household income comes to about $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 544 public schools and about 278,492 students.
The closest school to Parkwood Elementary is Edwin Pratt Learning Center, located about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Parkwood Elementary is ahead of the 61.4% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 7.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count increased 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Parkwood Elementary. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Shoreline School District
- Shorecrest High SchoolHigh · 1,565 students
- Shorewood High SchoolHigh · 1,544 students
- Albert Einstein Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,032 students
- Kellogg Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 589 students
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
Other schools in Shoreline
- Shorecrest High SchoolHigh · 1,565 students
- Shorewood High SchoolHigh · 1,544 students
- Albert Einstein Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,032 students
- Kellogg Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 589 students
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
Other Parkwood Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Parkwood Elementary. Parkwood Elementary is the 9th largest of the 10.
- Parkwood Elementary SchoolWarner Robins, GA · 683 students
- Parkwood ElementaryMadera, CA · 635 students
- Parkwood Elementary SchoolPASADENA, TX · 619 students
- Parkwood Elementary SchoolClarksville, IN · 561 students
- Parkwood Elementary SchoolBeavercreek, OH · 538 students
Nearby schools
- Edwin Pratt Learning Center0.9 mi · 318
- Meridian Park Elementary School1.0 mi · 589
- Ingraham High School1.0 mi · 1,391
- Ridgecrest Elementary1.1 mi · 424
- Highland Terrace Elementary1.1 mi · 322
- Shorewood High School1.1 mi · 1,544
Frequently asked questions
About Parkwood ElementaryHow many students attend Parkwood Elementary?
Parkwood Elementary enrolls approximately 390 students in grades KG-05.
Is Parkwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Parkwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Parkwood Elementary have?
Parkwood Elementary employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Parkwood Elementary?
At Parkwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 37% White, 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 11% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Parkwood Elementary?
Parkwood Elementary is overseen by Shoreline School District in King County.
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