Rainier View Elementary School

Rainier View Elementary School, a compact K-5 school in SEATTLE, Washington, one of the schools within Seattle School District No. 1, enrolls 167 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 56% below typical.

Seattle School District No. 1 runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 50,773 students. Rainier View Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rainier View Elementary School shows that 31% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 30% Black, 19% Hispanic, 11% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Rainier View Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of King County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rainier View Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.0%; Rainier View Elementary School posts 33.3%, -10.7 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (King County) shows that median household earnings sit near $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Rainier View Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Campbell Hill Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rainier View Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rainier View Elementary School has contracted 30%, going from 240 students in 2018 to 167 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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