Rose Hill Elementary

Rose Hill Elementary is an elementary campus of substantial scale in Kirkland, Washington, operated by Lake Washington School District, hosting 570 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 50% larger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Lake Washington School District runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 30,986 students. Rose Hill Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Rose Hill Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 31% White, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rose Hill Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.1%; this one delivers 76.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for King County put median household earnings sit near $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Rose Hill Elementary is one.

Rose Hill Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rose Hill Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rose Hill Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 72.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rose Hill Elementary has increased 21%, going from 473 students in 2018 to 570 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 26% to 41%. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Rose Hill Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.