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What's one thing Phantom Lake Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
430
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530039000082
Phantom Lake Elementary
1050 160th Avenue SE, Bellevue, WA 98008 · (425) 456-5600 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL430 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
151 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 93 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
74%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
66.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.7pp since 2014
Math
58.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.7% | 58.5% |
| 2023-24 | 68.9% | 63.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.5% | 64.6% |
| 2021-22 | 65.3% | 55.6% |
| 2018-19 | 70.9% | 70.7% |
| 2017-18 | 71.2% | 63.8% |
| 2016-17 | 66.7% | 68.4% |
| 2015-16 | 66.0% | 70.7% |
| 2014-15 | 67.3% | 65.6% |
% 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
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Phantom Lake Elementary
Phantom Lake Elementary's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phantom Lake Elementary this school | 430 | 35.1% | 65.3% |
| Lake Youngs Elementary School Kent | 416 | 33.9% | 65.7% |
| Crystal Springs Elementary Bothell | 500 | 35.0% | 61.8% |
| Carriage Crest Elementary School Renton | 324 | 32.7% | 51.6% |
| Clark Elementary ISSAQUAH | 586 | 28.3% | 69.7% |
| John Muir Elementary Kirkland | 321 | 30.5% | 61.5% |
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 Phantom Lake Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #190 of 936 | #113 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #277 of 1,103 ▼ 67 | #133 of 281 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #204 of 1,102 ▼ 36 | #110 of 280 ▼ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.1pp | #424 of 928 | #110 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 430 | #515 of 1,268 | #142 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #1,011 of 1,085 | #258 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.8% | #169 of 1,088 | #97 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.1% | #866 of 1,169 | #148 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.1% | #207 of 257 | #42 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
430
-28 (-6%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 346
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 430 | 23 | 18.7:1 | 35% (151) |
| 2023-24 | 452 | 19.5 | 23.2:1 | 38% (174) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 23.9 | 19.3:1 | 33% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 30 | 15.3:1 | 29% (133) |
| 2017-18 | 417 | 27.2 | 15.3:1 | 24% (98) |
| 2015-16 | 395 | 28 | 14.1:1 | 31% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 378 | 21 | 18.0:1 | 34% (130) |
| 2000-01 | 325 | 18 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 346 | 13 | 26.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Phantom Lake Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (417 to 430); teachers down 15% (27.2 to 23).
About Phantom Lake Elementary
Phantom Lake Elementary is an elementary school in Bellevue, Washington, reachable at (425) 456-5600. It educates 430 students in pre-K through 5.
The Bellevue School District system has 30 schools and 20,339 students.
Phantom Lake Elementary has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 33%. The rest of enrollment is 32% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 5% Black. Census estimates put the White share of King County's population at about 55%. Phantom Lake Elementary's diversity index is 74%, against a US figure of 70%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 18.7:1, with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has more students per teacher than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Phantom Lake Elementary is 35%. That tracks the 38% average for public schools in King County.
Phantom Lake Elementary scores 65.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 56.6%.
King County has about 2,287,171 residents, and the median household income is $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Besides Phantom Lake Elementary, King County has 543 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, Tillicum Middle School is the closest, at less than a tenth of a mile. Phantom Lake Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Phantom Lake Elementary ranks 4th on proficiency.
NCES assigns Phantom Lake Elementary the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment at Phantom Lake Elementary dropped 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 458 to 430 students. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.7:1) than in 2020-21 (15.3:1).
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Bellevue School District
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other schools in Bellevue
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Nearby schools
- Tillicum Middle School0.1 mi · 676
- Spiritridge Elementary School0.9 mi · 546
- Bellevue Big Picture School0.9 mi · 346
- Puesta del Sol Elementary School1.0 mi · 494
- Lake Hills Elementary1.1 mi · 498
- Sammamish Senior High1.4 mi · 1,363
Frequently asked questions
About Phantom Lake ElementaryHow many students attend Phantom Lake Elementary?
Phantom Lake Elementary enrolls approximately 430 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Phantom Lake Elementary serve?
Phantom Lake Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Phantom Lake Elementary have?
Phantom Lake Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Phantom Lake Elementary?
Student demographics at Phantom Lake Elementary are roughly 33% White, 19% Hispanic, 5% Black, 32% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Phantom Lake Elementary in?
Phantom Lake Elementary is part of Bellevue School District.
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