Rosa Parks Elementary

Rosa Parks Elementary operates as a mid-tier primary school in Redmond, Washington, one of the schools within Lake Washington School District. Current enrollment sits at 450 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 55 schools in Lake Washington School District (30,986 students total), Rosa Parks Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Rosa Parks Elementary lists that 61% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest consists of 24% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Rosa Parks Elementary lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than King County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, Rosa Parks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.3%, the actual is 84.4%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the broader community, King County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, 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 Rosa Parks Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Timberline Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rosa Parks Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rosa Parks Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 81.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rosa Parks Elementary has shrank 30%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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