Sand Point Elementary

Set in Seattle, Washington, Sand Point Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school, one of the schools within Seattle School District No. 1. It teaches 173 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 54% smaller than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Sand Point Elementary is one of 107 schools operated by Seattle School District No. 1, a district that educates 50,773 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Sand Point Elementary logs that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 23% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Sand Point Elementary shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sand Point Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of +2.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for King County shows 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. Sand Point Elementary is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

View Ridge Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sand Point Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 74.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sand Point Elementary has fell 19%, going from 213 students in 2018 to 173 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 12% to 23%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Sand Point Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.