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Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530354000550
Shorewood Elementary
2725 SW 116th St, Burien, WA 98146 · (206) 631-4900 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Washington public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-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
16.0:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
232 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
31.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.6pp since 2014
Math
32.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 14 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.9% | 32.9% |
| 2023-24 | 47.2% | 44.0% |
| 2022-23 | 49.8% | 46.8% |
| 2021-22 | 40.8% | 42.7% |
| 2018-19 | 57.9% | 59.7% |
| 2017-18 | 63.7% | 63.1% |
| 2016-17 | 59.8% | 64.1% |
| 2015-16 | 59.0% | 61.9% |
| 2014-15 | 45.5% | 46.4% |
% 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
41.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Shorewood Elementary
Shorewood Elementary's state test result (41.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorewood Elementary this school | 400 | 58.0% | 41.7% |
| Evergreen Heights Elementary AUBURN | 457 | 54.0% | 49.1% |
| Covington Elementary School Covington | 456 | 52.0% | 46.7% |
| Horizon Elementary School Kent | 408 | 57.8% | 37.0% |
| Lakeland Elementary School AUBURN | 418 | 61.0% | 36.1% |
| Pathfinder Kindergarten Center Everett | 437 | 61.6% | N/A |
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 Shorewood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #593 of 936 | #193 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #823 of 1,103 ▼ 275 | #223 of 281 ▼ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #910 of 1,102 ▼ 356 | #236 of 280 ▼ 59 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -9.4pp | #43 of 928 | #16 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #637 of 1,268 | #173 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #604 of 1,085 | #149 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 79.0% | #42 of 1,088 | #24 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.0% | #484 of 1,169 | #90 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.1% | #55 of 778 | #25 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
400
-121 (-23%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 449
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 400 | 25 | 16.0:1 | 58% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 25.1 | 16.4:1 | 58% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 458 | 28.8 | 15.9:1 | 56% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 53% (277) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 31.3 | 20.0:1 | 54% (341) |
| 2015-16 | 574 | 31 | 18.5:1 | 58% (334) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 24 | 19.1:1 | 51% (235) |
| 2000-01 | 394 | 19 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 449 | 20 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shorewood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (626 to 400); teachers down 20% (31.3 to 25).
About Shorewood Elementary
This page covers Shorewood Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school in Burien, Washington. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 400 students.
Shorewood Elementary is part of a district of 36 schools: Highline School District, with 18,072 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Shorewood Elementary. The largest is White students, at 28%. Smaller groups are 25% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 14% multiracial, and 11% Black. For comparison, the population of King County is roughly 55% White. The school's diversity index is 79%, meaning two students picked at random have a 79% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.0:1, with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is lower than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Shorewood Elementary is 58%. The 38% average for public schools in King County is 20 points lower.
Shorewood Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 24% of Washington public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Shorewood Elementary is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 41.7%. Predicted: 41.3%.
Shorewood Elementary is located in King County, where the median household income is $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Shorewood Elementary is one of 544 public schools in the county.
The next-closest public school is Arbor Heights Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. Shorewood Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Shorewood Elementary's average proficiency of 41.7% compares with 34.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Shorewood Elementary's enrollment declined from 521 in 2020-21 to 400 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Highline School District
- Mount Rainier High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Evergreen High SchoolHigh · 1,080 students
- Glacier Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 671 students
- Tyee High SchoolHigh · 644 students
Other schools in Burien
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Sylvester Middle SchoolMiddle · 582 students
- Gregory Heights ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Hazel Valley ElementaryElementary · 469 students
- Seahurst Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Cedarhurst ElementaryElementary · 399 students
Nearby schools
- Arbor Heights Elementary School0.9 mi · 495
- Mount View Elementary1.0 mi · 460
- Cascade Middle School1.0 mi · 671
- Evergreen High School1.1 mi · 1,080
- Highline Open Doors 14181.2 mi · 240
- Bridges Transition1.4 mi · 109
Frequently asked questions
About Shorewood ElementaryHow many students attend Shorewood Elementary?
Shorewood Elementary enrolls approximately 400 students in grades PK-05.
Is Shorewood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Shorewood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Shorewood Elementary?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Shorewood Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Shorewood Elementary?
Student demographics at Shorewood Elementary are roughly 28% White, 25% Hispanic, 11% Black, 19% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Shorewood Elementary in?
Shorewood Elementary is part of Highline School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.