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What's the biggest difference between Peter Kirk Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
592
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423000677
Peter Kirk Elementary
1312 6th Street, Kirkland, WA 98033 · (425) 936-2590 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL592 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
36 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
79.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.9pp since 2014
Math
73.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -5.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 5 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.7% | 73.9% |
| 2023-24 | 81.8% | 77.1% |
| 2022-23 | 78.5% | 73.5% |
| 2021-22 | 83.7% | 76.0% |
| 2018-19 | 81.6% | 77.0% |
| 2017-18 | 83.3% | 73.6% |
| 2016-17 | 88.9% | 84.9% |
| 2015-16 | 89.5% | 83.0% |
| 2014-15 | 83.6% | 78.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Peter Kirk Elementary
Peter Kirk Elementary's state test result (78.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Kirk Elementary this school | 592 | 6.1% | 78.0% |
| Timber Ridge Elementary School SNOQUALMIE | 607 | 12.0% | 79.4% |
| Cascadia Elementary Seattle | 531 | 7.7% | 96.5% |
| Moorlands Elementary Kenmore | 579 | 10.7% | 75.8% |
| Little Cedars Elementary School Snohomish | 646 | 13.3% | 69.2% |
| Cedar River Elementary Maple Valley | 593 | 15.3% | 77.3% |
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 Peter Kirk Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #66 of 936 | #54 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #95 of 1,103 ▼ 27 | #65 of 281 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.7% | #55 of 1,102 ▼ 9 | #44 of 280 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #221 of 928 | #68 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 592 | #114 of 1,268 | #25 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #857 of 1,085 | #225 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.0% | #479 of 1,088 | #210 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.1% | #1,149 of 1,169 | #274 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.7% | #163 of 257 | #33 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
592
-35 (-6%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 616
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 592 | 34.5 | 17.2:1 | 6% (36) |
| 2023-24 | 592 | 31.9 | 18.6:1 | 6% (38) |
| 2022-23 | 600 | 33.6 | 17.8:1 | 7% (41) |
| 2020-21 | 627 | 35 | 17.9:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 27.9 | 20.1:1 | 4% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 526 | 27 | 19.5:1 | 4% (23) |
| 2010-11 | 543 | 27 | 20.1:1 | 4% (21) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 24 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 616 | 26 | 23.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Peter Kirk Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (560 to 592); teachers up 24% (27.9 to 34.5).
About Peter Kirk Elementary
Peter Kirk Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school in Lake Washington School District, located in Kirkland, Washington. It teaches 592 students in kindergarten through 5. That is 56% bigger than the average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
Lake Washington School District is responsible for 55 schools, Peter Kirk Elementary included, with 30,986 students in all.
Federal enrollment data show Peter Kirk Elementary is 53% White. Other groups make up 26% Asian, 11% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. In King County overall, the White share is about 55%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
Peter Kirk Elementary reported 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 17.2:1. It is about the same as the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Roughly 6% of students at Peter Kirk Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in King County average 38%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Peter Kirk Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Washington schools: 78.0% actual against 76.1% predicted.
The county, King County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Peter Kirk Elementary.
The closest school to Peter Kirk Elementary is Kirkland Middle School, located about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Peter Kirk Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Peter Kirk Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 592, compared with 627 in 2020-21.
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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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Kirkland
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Kirkland Middle SchoolMiddle · 746 students
- Finn Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 664 students
- Lakeview ElementaryElementary · 602 students
- Kamiakin Middle SchoolMiddle · 573 students
Nearby schools
- Kirkland Middle School0.4 mi · 746
- Alexander Graham Bell Elementary1.1 mi · 503
- Lake Washington High School1.2 mi · 2,081
- Mark Twain Elementary1.2 mi · 550
- Lakeview Elementary1.3 mi · 602
- Rose Hill Elementary1.5 mi · 570
Frequently asked questions
About Peter Kirk ElementaryHow many students attend Peter Kirk Elementary?
Peter Kirk Elementary enrolls approximately 592 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Peter Kirk Elementary serve?
Peter Kirk Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Peter Kirk Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Peter Kirk Elementary is approximately 17.2:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Peter Kirk Elementary?
At Peter Kirk Elementary, the student body is approximately 53% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 26% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Peter Kirk Elementary public or private?
Peter Kirk Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Washington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.