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Sartori Elementary School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 3 points since 2018, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
About Sartori Elementary School
Sartori Elementary School, a mid-tier elementary school in Renton, Washington, part of Renton School District, teaches 510 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Sartori Elementary School sits 34% above that benchmark.
Renton School District comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 14,873 students; Sartori Elementary School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Sartori Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Asian (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% White, 17% multiracial, 16% Hispanic, 11% Black. The wider county runs roughly 21% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Sartori Elementary School shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Sartori Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 68.7%, a residual of +7.6 points.
In the area at large, King County reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Sartori Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).
Nearest neighbor: Renton Senior High School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sartori Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 31.2%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
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