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Enrollment
546
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530039000088
Spiritridge Elementary School
16401 SE 24th Street, Bellevue, WA 98008 · (425) 456-5900 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% 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.
- 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
17.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
108 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
65.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -21.6pp since 2014
Math
66.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -22.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 22 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 22 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.3% | 66.4% |
| 2023-24 | 65.8% | 68.0% |
| 2022-23 | 81.6% | 83.0% |
| 2021-22 | 84.3% | 82.7% |
| 2018-19 | 85.8% | 84.8% |
| 2017-18 | 87.8% | 87.3% |
| 2016-17 | 86.5% | 86.2% |
| 2015-16 | 85.6% | 85.3% |
| 2014-15 | 86.9% | 88.4% |
% 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
67.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 Spiritridge Elementary School
Spiritridge Elementary School's state test result (67.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spiritridge Elementary School this school | 546 | 19.8% | 67.3% |
| Enatai Elementary School Bellevue | 518 | 21.4% | 65.0% |
| Rose Hill Elementary Kirkland | 570 | 18.1% | 76.3% |
| Mark Twain Elementary Kirkland | 550 | 16.7% | 71.9% |
| Apollo Elementary RENTON | 496 | 16.9% | 75.8% |
| Cedar Wood Elementary Bothell | 682 | 22.6% | 84.4% |
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 Spiritridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #168 of 936 | #105 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #177 of 1,103 ▼ 25 | #106 of 281 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #220 of 1,102 ▼ 8 | #115 of 280 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -17.6pp | #3 of 928 | #1 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #182 of 1,268 | #47 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #910 of 1,085 | #234 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.2% | #216 of 1,088 | #117 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.8% | #1,038 of 1,169 | #199 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.7% | #254 of 778 | #88 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
546
-105 (-16%) vs 2020
+77% since 1990-91, when it was 308
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
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 | 546 | 31.2 | 17.5:1 | 20% (108) |
| 2023-24 | 563 | 33.5 | 16.8:1 | 19% (108) |
| 2022-23 | 582 | 31.6 | 18.4:1 | 13% (78) |
| 2020-21 | 651 | 35 | 18.6:1 | 8% (55) |
| 2017-18 | 697 | 35.9 | 19.4:1 | 9% (60) |
| 2015-16 | 654 | 33 | 19.8:1 | 9% (60) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 23 | 23.9:1 | 15% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 368 | 17 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 308 | 13 | 23.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spiritridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (697 to 546); teachers down 13% (35.9 to 31.2).
About Spiritridge Elementary School
Families in Bellevue, Washington, are served by Spiritridge Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 546 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 44% above that mark.
Within Bellevue School District, Spiritridge Elementary School is one of 30 schools. The district enrolls 20,339 students.
The student body at Spiritridge Elementary School has no majority group. Asian students lead at 38%. Next come 31% White, 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, and 5% Black. The county population is about 21% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
The school lists 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Washington is similar, at 17.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 20% of the student body. By comparison, the figure for public schools in King County is 38%.
On the allk12 Grade, Spiritridge Elementary School lands at B, ahead of 55% of Washington public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Spiritridge Elementary School is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 67.3%. Predicted: 66.9%.
In the wider King County area, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across King County, 544 public schools serve about 278,492 students.
Tillicum Middle School, about 0.8 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Spiritridge Elementary School is 5th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 651 to 546, a 16% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.6:1 to 17.5:1.
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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 Bellevue School District
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other schools in Bellevue
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Nearby schools
- Tillicum Middle School0.8 mi · 676
- Phantom Lake Elementary0.9 mi · 430
- Bellevue Big Picture School1.1 mi · 346
- Sunset Elementary1.6 mi · 499
- Lake Hills Elementary1.6 mi · 498
- Cougar Ridge Elementary1.8 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About Spiritridge Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Spiritridge Elementary School?
Spiritridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 546 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Spiritridge Elementary School serve?
Spiritridge Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Spiritridge Elementary School?
Approximately 17.5:1 students per teacher at Spiritridge Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Spiritridge Elementary School?
At Spiritridge Elementary School, the student body is approximately 31% White, 12% Hispanic, 5% Black, 38% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Spiritridge Elementary School public or private?
Spiritridge Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bellevue School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.