Salmon Bay K-8 School

Salmon Bay K-8 School is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in SEATTLE, Washington. Classes run from kindergarten through 8, and the school has 595 students. Against the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington, enrollment here is 57% higher.

Seattle School District No. 1 oversees Salmon Bay K-8 School and 106 other schools, with 50,773 students in total.

Roughly 71% of students at Salmon Bay K-8 School are White. Other groups make up 14% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 4% Hispanic. County-wide, 55% of King County residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 44% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Federal data list 35.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Salmon Bay K-8 School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 16.7:1. That matches the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington fairly closely. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 11%. On average, public schools in King County report 38%.

Across King County, the median household income is $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. In all, King County has 544 public schools and roughly 278,492 students.

The shortest distance from Salmon Bay K-8 School to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Ballard High School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment has fallen by 65 students since 2020-21, to 595.

The Salmon Bay K-8 School community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.