Ridgecrest Elementary

As an average-sized primary school in Shoreline, Washington, Ridgecrest Elementary teaches 424 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Shoreline School District.

Shoreline School District comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 9,717 students; Ridgecrest Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ridgecrest Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 12% multiracial, 9% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Ridgecrest Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ridgecrest Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 53.9%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for King County put the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Ridgecrest Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fircrest Residential Habilitation, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ridgecrest Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 539 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 51% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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