Rock Creek Elementary

Rock Creek Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Maple Valley, Washington, operated by Tahoma School District. The school educates 686 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 81% larger than typical.

Tahoma School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 9,234 students. Rock Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Rock Creek Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 24% Asian, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black.

Looking at school resources, Rock Creek Elementary logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 17% of students at Rock Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below King County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Rock Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.8%; this one delivers 71.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for King County indicate median household income runs about $124,746, 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 Rock Creek Elementary is one.

Summit Trail Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rock Creek Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 706 students in 2018 compared to 686 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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