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Enrollment
450
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423003077
Rosa Parks Elementary
22845 NE Cedar Park Crescent, Redmond, WA 98053 · (425) 936-2650 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL450 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
26 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
83.5%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.5pp since 2014
Math
80.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -8.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.5% | 80.3% |
| 2023-24 | 88.0% | 84.2% |
| 2022-23 | 87.6% | 84.7% |
| 2021-22 | 87.5% | 82.5% |
| 2018-19 | 90.1% | 89.8% |
| 2017-18 | 91.1% | 88.8% |
| 2016-17 | 88.8% | 90.1% |
| 2015-16 | 89.1% | 91.0% |
| 2014-15 | 86.9% | 88.7% |
% 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
84.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Rosa Parks Elementary
Rosa Parks Elementary's state test result (84.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosa Parks Elementary this school | 450 | 5.8% | 84.4% |
| Rachel Carson Elementary Sammamish | 486 | 2.5% | 85.7% |
| Discovery Elementary ISSAQUAH | 508 | 4.9% | 85.0% |
| Cascade Ridge Elementary SAMMAMISH | 391 | 3.8% | 91.1% |
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary Kirkland | 452 | 10.0% | 80.7% |
| Christa Mcauliffe Elementary Sammamish | 472 | 1.5% | 92.1% |
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 Rosa Parks Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.4% | #26 of 936 | #22 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #44 of 1,103 ▼ 18 | #34 of 281 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.5% | #32 of 1,102 ▼ 19 | #27 of 280 ▼ 16 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.1pp | #215 of 928 | #65 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 450 | #453 of 1,268 | #126 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #652 of 1,085 | #164 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.7% | #625 of 1,088 | #240 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.8% | #1,152 of 1,169 | #276 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.1% | #114 of 778 | #45 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
450
-153 (-25%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 668
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
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 | 450 | 27.7 | 16.3:1 | 6% (26) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 27.9 | 17.9:1 | 5% (27) |
| 2022-23 | 569 | 34.2 | 16.7:1 | 6% (34) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 36 | 16.8:1 | 2% (10) |
| 2017-18 | 644 | 35 | 18.4:1 | 3% (17) |
| 2015-16 | 665 | 32 | 20.8:1 | 3% (20) |
| 2010-11 | 668 | 33 | 20.2:1 | 1% (9) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rosa Parks Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (644 to 450); teachers down 21% (35 to 27.7).
About Rosa Parks Elementary
Rosa Parks Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school for students in Redmond, Washington. The school had 450 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Lake Washington School District, which runs Rosa Parks Elementary, has 55 schools and 30,986 students.
Rosa Parks Elementary's enrollment is 61% Asian. Other groups make up 24% White, 8% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 21% of King County residents are Asian. By the diversity index, Rosa Parks Elementary comes in at 56%.
The count of teachers at Rosa Parks Elementary is 27.7 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 16.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, higher than at this school. Around 6% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in King County average 38%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rosa Parks Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Washington schools: 84.4% actual against 76.3% predicted.
Census estimates describe King County this way: median household income is about $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of King County number 544 and enroll about 278,492.
Nearest public school: Timberline Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Rosa Parks Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Rosa Parks Elementary ranks 2nd of 7 nearby schools, at 84.4% versus an 81.0% average.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 603 in 2020-21 and 450 in 2024-25, a 25% decrease.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Rosa Parks Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Redmond
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
- Rose Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 901 students
- Timberline Middle SchoolMiddle · 788 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Benjamin Rush ElementaryElementary · 631 students
Other Rosa Parks Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 11 states are named Rosa Parks Elementary. Rosa Parks Elementary is the 11th largest of the 15.
- Rosa Parks ElementaryCorona, CA · 970 students
- Rosa Parks ElementarySacramento, CA · 722 students
- Rosa Parks ElementarySan Diego, CA · 705 students
- Rosa Parks Elementary SchoolLexington, KY · 681 students
- Rosa Parks Elementary SchoolIndianapolis, IN · 658 students
Nearby schools
- Timberline Middle School0.3 mi · 788
- Ella Baker Elementary School1.1 mi · 401
- Emily Dickinson Elementary1.6 mi · 294
- Explorer Community School1.6 mi · 60
- Evergreen Middle School1.7 mi · 761
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary2.4 mi · 315
Frequently asked questions
About Rosa Parks ElementaryHow large is Rosa Parks Elementary?
Rosa Parks Elementary enrolls approximately 450 students in grades KG-05.
Is Rosa Parks Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rosa Parks Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Rosa Parks Elementary have?
Rosa Parks Elementary employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Rosa Parks Elementary?
Student demographics at Rosa Parks Elementary are roughly 24% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 61% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Rosa Parks Elementary?
Rosa Parks Elementary is overseen by Lake Washington School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.