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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Rainier View Elementary School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
495
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282002440
Rainier View Elementary School
3015 S 368TH ST, FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 · (253) 945-3700 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL495 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of Washington public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
388 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 26 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
81%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
29.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -25.9pp since 2014
Math
24.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -28.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 26 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 29 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.3% | 24.1% |
| 2023-24 | 19.8% | 15.1% |
| 2022-23 | 19.6% | 19.1% |
| 2021-22 | 20.9% | 15.3% |
| 2018-19 | 40.3% | 34.3% |
| 2017-18 | 41.1% | 37.3% |
| 2016-17 | 37.3% | 35.3% |
| 2015-16 | 45.9% | 45.0% |
| 2014-15 | 55.1% | 53.1% |
% 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
21.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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 Rainier View Elementary School
Rainier View Elementary School's state test result (21.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainier View Elementary School this school | 495 | 78.4% | 21.8% |
| Helen Stafford Elementary School Tacoma | 453 | 74.4% | 30.0% |
| Birney Elementary School Tacoma | 476 | 71.6% | 26.9% |
| Olivia Park Elementary Everett | 559 | 73.5% | 36.3% |
| Woodmont K-8 School DES MOINES | 402 | 70.9% | 34.5% |
| Star Lake Elementary School KENT | 434 | 70.0% | 41.0% |
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 Rainier View Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #893 of 936 | #269 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #973 of 1,103 ▲ 90 | #255 of 281 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #954 of 1,102 ▲ 105 | #245 of 280 ▲ 23 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.6pp | #116 of 928 | #23 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 495 | #305 of 1,268 | #80 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #768 of 1,085 | #200 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 80.8% | #9 of 1,088 | #5 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.4% | #136 of 1,169 | #17 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #667 of 778 | #191 of 220 |
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
495
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
-6% since 2000-01, when it was 527
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 495 | 29.5 | 16.8:1 | 78% (388) |
| 2023-24 | 523 | 31.5 | 16.6:1 | 85% (447) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 84% (414) |
| 2020-21 | 487 | 29 | 16.8:1 | 67% (325) |
| 2017-18 | 523 | 32.5 | 16.1:1 | 69% (362) |
| 2015-16 | 515 | 28 | 18.4:1 | 73% (374) |
| 2010-11 | 329 | 19 | 17.3:1 | 45% (149) |
| 2000-01 | 527 | 24 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rainier View Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (523 to 495); teachers down 9% (32.5 to 29.5).
About Rainier View Elementary School
Rainier View Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in FEDERAL WAY, Washington. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 495 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington, enrollment here is 30% higher.
Rainier View Elementary School is in Federal Way School District, a district with 22,250 students across 43 schools.
Rainier View Elementary School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 28%. Other students are 22% White, 17% Asian, 12% multiracial, and 12% Black. By comparison, King County residents are about 11% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is an 81% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 16.8 students per teacher. That is close to the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 78% of students. That is 40 points above the 38% average for public schools in King County.
allk12 grades Rainier View Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with Washington public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 27.6% for Rainier View Elementary School. The school posts 21.8%, 5.8 points below the prediction.
According to the American Community Survey, in King County, the median household income is $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Rainier View Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from Rainier View Elementary School to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to Sequoyah Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Rainier View Elementary School ranks 7th on proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
In 2020-21, Rainier View Elementary School enrolled 487; in 2024-25, 495.
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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 Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in FEDERAL WAY
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Illahee Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Lakota Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
Other Rainier View Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Rainier View Elementary. Rainier View Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Rainier View Elementary SchoolSEATTLE, WA · 167 students
Nearby schools
- Sequoyah Middle School0.6 mi · 570
- Lakeland Elementary School0.7 mi · 418
- Todd Beamer High School1.0 mi · 1,412
- Hedden Elementary School1.6 mi · 469
- Discovery Primary School1.7 mi · 506
- Surprise Lake Middle School1.7 mi · 613
Frequently asked questions
About Rainier View Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Rainier View Elementary School?
Rainier View Elementary School enrolls approximately 495 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Rainier View Elementary School serve?
Rainier View Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Rainier View Elementary School?
Approximately 16.8:1 students per teacher at Rainier View Elementary School.
How diverse is Rainier View Elementary School?
Rainier View Elementary School reports a student body of 22% White, 28% Hispanic, 12% Black, 17% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Rainier View Elementary School in?
Rainier View Elementary School is part of Federal Way School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.