Enrollment
121
Combined
STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAINIER VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY·NCES 530034203602
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy
6020 Rainier Avenue S, Seattle, WA 98118 · (206) 659-0956 · King County
GRADES 06–12COMBINED11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL121 STUDENTS
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Not graded
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
14 FTE teachers
STATE 33.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
68 students
STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 13 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 26 | 21% |
| Grade 7 | 19 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 22 | 18% |
| Grade 9 | 9 | 7% |
| Grade 10 | 7 | 6% |
| Grade 11 | 14 | 12% |
| Grade 12 | 11 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (13) is 41% smaller than its 8th grade class (22).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
22.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.5pp since 2017
Math
9.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -21.2pp since 2017
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 10 points since 2017, while math scores are down about 21 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.2% | 9.5% |
| 2023-24 | 23.7% | 7.5% |
| 2022-23 | 27.2% | 10.9% |
| 2021-22 | 26.2% | 8.7% |
| 2018-19 | 35.2% | 37.7% |
| 2017-18 | 32.7% | 30.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Rainier Valley Leadership Academy
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy's state test result (19.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainier Valley Leadership Academy this school | 121 | 56.2% | 19.4% |
| Support School Federal Way | 55 | 47.3% | N/A |
| Chief Kitsap Academy Poulsbo | 74 | 64.9% | 25.7% |
| North River School Cosmopolis | 54 | 55.6% | 38.8% |
| Northwest Allprep Prosser | 112 | 56.3% | 20.8% |
| Clallam Bay High & Elementary Clallam Bay | 100 | 73.0% | N/A |
Matched among Washington K-12 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 Rainier Valley Leadership Academy ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.4% | #15 of 16 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.5% | #18 of 20 ▲ 2 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #18 of 20 ▼ 1 | N/A |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.6pp | #10 of 14 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 121 | #47 of 116 | #7 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.2% | #21 of 60 | #3 of 8 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
121
-37 (-23%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 121 | 14 | 8.7:1 | 56% (68) |
| 2023-24 | 163 | 12.2 | 13.4:1 | 71% (115) |
| 2022-23 | 145 | 12.9 | 11.3:1 | 78% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 158 | 14 | 11.3:1 | 82% (130) |
| 2017-18 | 102 | 8 | 12.8:1 | 71% (72) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rainier Valley Leadership Academy.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (102 to 121); teachers up 75% (8 to 14).
About Rainier Valley Leadership Academy
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy serves students in Seattle, Washington, as a small school serving multiple grade levels. Enrollment stands at 121 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That is 41% below the average of about 204 students for combined schools in Washington.
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy operates as its own local education agency.
More than half of enrollment at Rainier Valley Leadership Academy is Black: 70%. The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. King County as a whole is about 7% Black, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Rainier Valley Leadership Academy scores 46%.
The school has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 8.7 students per teacher. Combined schools in Washington average 33.2:1, 24.6 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at Rainier Valley Leadership Academy, 56% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in King County is 38%.
A school in Washington with Rainier Valley Leadership Academy's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 42.5%. Rainier Valley Leadership Academy scores 19.4%.
For King County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 544 public schools in the county, enrolling about 278,492, Rainier Valley Leadership Academy among them.
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy is about 0.3 miles from Aki Kurose Middle School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Rainier Valley Leadership Academy is behind the 41.3% nearby average, ranking 7th of 7.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Rainier Valley Leadership Academy is run as a public charter school.
A 23% decline took enrollment from 158 in 2020-21 to 121 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 11.3:1 to 8.7:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About Rainier Valley Leadership AcademyHow large is Rainier Valley Leadership Academy?
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy enrolls approximately 121 students in grades 06-12.
What age range does Rainier Valley Leadership Academy serve?
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy serves students from grade 06 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Rainier Valley Leadership Academy?
Approximately 8.7:1 students per teacher at Rainier Valley Leadership Academy.
How diverse is Rainier Valley Leadership Academy?
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy reports a student body of 1% White, 20% Hispanic, 70% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Rainier Valley Leadership Academy in?
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy is part of Rainier Valley Leadership Academy.
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