Scenic Hill Elementary School

Scenic Hill Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Kent, Washington, overseen by Kent School District, with 481 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Within Kent School District, which oversees 44 schools and 25,358 students, Scenic Hill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Scenic Hill Elementary School logs that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 17% Asian, 14% White, 11% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Scenic Hill Elementary School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at Scenic Hill Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Scenic Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.7%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (King County) logs that median household income runs about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Scenic Hill Elementary School is one.

Kent-Meridian High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 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), Scenic Hill Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 20.1%.

Scenic Hill Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 26%: 651 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 9% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Scenic Hill Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.