Rachel Carson Elementary

Set in Sammamish, Washington, Rachel Carson Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school, part of Lake Washington School District. It hosts 486 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Rachel Carson Elementary sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

Lake Washington School District comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 30,986 students; Rachel Carson Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Rachel Carson Elementary shows that 62% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest is composed of 25% White, 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rachel Carson Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 2% of students at Rachel Carson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below King County's rate of about 38%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rachel Carson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.5%; this one delivers 85.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for King County put median household earnings sit near $124,746, 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 Rachel Carson Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Inglewood Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rachel Carson Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 79.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 472 students in 2018 compared to 486 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 36% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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