Pine Tree Elementary School

Pine Tree Elementary School is one of the intimate K-5 schools in Kent, Washington, one of the schools within Kent School District, with 305 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Kent School District runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 25,358 students. Pine Tree Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pine Tree Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 22%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 19% Black, 12% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pine Tree Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Pine Tree Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (King County) shows that median household income runs about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Pine Tree Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Millennium Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Tree Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Tree Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Pine Tree Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 431 (now 305). The White share of enrollment contracted from 27% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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