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Enrollment
545
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423002216
Samantha Smith Elementary
23305 NE 14th St, Sammamish, WA 98074 · (425) 936-2710 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Washington public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
18 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 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (103).
Student demographics
46%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
88.5%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.1pp since 2014
Math
86.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.5% | 86.9% |
| 2023-24 | 86.3% | 86.1% |
| 2022-23 | 89.3% | 88.4% |
| 2021-22 | 86.2% | 85.2% |
| 2018-19 | 90.9% | 90.4% |
| 2017-18 | 89.2% | 90.5% |
| 2016-17 | 87.9% | 89.7% |
| 2015-16 | 90.6% | 86.4% |
| 2014-15 | 87.3% | 87.0% |
% 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
87.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Samantha Smith Elementary
Samantha Smith Elementary's state test result (87.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha Smith Elementary this school | 545 | 3.3% | 87.1% |
| Cherry Crest Elementary School Bellevue | 553 | 4.7% | 88.3% |
| Medina Elementary School MEDINA | 591 | 5.6% | 92.5% |
| Louisa May Alcott Elementary Redmond | 615 | 5.4% | 86.3% |
| Kokanee Elementary Woodinville | 651 | 6.8% | 79.5% |
| Benjamin Rush Elementary Redmond | 631 | 9.7% | 78.6% |
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 Samantha Smith Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #13 of 936 | #12 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.9% | #15 of 1,103 ▲ 6 | #14 of 281 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.5% | #10 of 1,102 ▲ 8 | #10 of 280 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #435 of 928 | #113 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #186 of 1,268 | #49 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #970 of 1,085 | #249 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.9% | #843 of 1,088 | #268 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.3% | #1,166 of 1,169 | #289 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.8% | #251 of 778 | #87 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
545
-89 (-14%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 666
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 545 | 30.3 | 18.0:1 | 3% (18) |
| 2023-24 | 571 | 30.6 | 18.6:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2022-23 | 617 | 33.1 | 18.7:1 | 3% (18) |
| 2020-21 | 634 | 34 | 18.6:1 | 1% (7) |
| 2017-18 | 697 | 35.9 | 19.4:1 | 1% (9) |
| 2015-16 | 617 | 30 | 20.6:1 | 3% (16) |
| 2010-11 | 596 | 29 | 20.6:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2000-01 | 542 | 25 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 666 | 28 | 23.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Samantha Smith Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (697 to 545); teachers down 16% (35.9 to 30.3).
About Samantha Smith Elementary
Samantha Smith Elementary is an elementary school in Sammamish, Washington, reachable at (425) 936-2710. It teaches 545 students in kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Washington enroll about 380 students on average.
Across its 55 schools, Lake Washington School District enrolls 30,986 students. Samantha Smith Elementary is one of those schools.
The student body at Samantha Smith Elementary is 70% Asian. It is also 20% White, 4% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. King County's residents are about 21% Asian, 50 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 46% means there is a 46% chance two randomly chosen students at Samantha Smith Elementary are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.0:1. The school has 30.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is close to this figure. In all, 3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in King County averages 38%, higher than here.
Samantha Smith Elementary earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 95% of Washington public elementary schools.
Test results at Samantha Smith Elementary are 9.1 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (87.1% actual, 78.0% predicted).
The county, King County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 544, with about 278,492 students.
The closest school to Samantha Smith Elementary is Inglewood Middle School, located about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Samantha Smith Elementary ranks 2nd of 8 nearby schools, at 87.1% versus a 79.2% average.
Samantha Smith Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 545, from 634 in 2020-21.
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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 Sammamish
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Margaret Mead ElementaryElementary · 580 students
- Sunny Hills ElementaryElementary · 574 students
Nearby schools
- Inglewood Middle School0.5 mi · 1,229
- Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning0.5 mi · 80
- Eastlake High School0.5 mi · 2,481
- Rachel Carson Elementary0.6 mi · 486
- Christa Mcauliffe Elementary0.6 mi · 472
- Margaret Mead Elementary1.3 mi · 580
Frequently asked questions
About Samantha Smith ElementaryHow large is Samantha Smith Elementary?
Samantha Smith Elementary enrolls approximately 545 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Samantha Smith Elementary serve?
Samantha Smith Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Samantha Smith Elementary?
Approximately 18.0:1 students per teacher at Samantha Smith Elementary.
How diverse is Samantha Smith Elementary?
Samantha Smith Elementary reports a student body of 20% White, 4% Hispanic, 70% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Samantha Smith Elementary public or private?
Samantha Smith Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Washington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.