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What's one thing Sunnycrest Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
535
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000450
Sunnycrest Elementary School
24629 42ND AV S, KENT, WA 98032 · (253) 945-4100 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL535 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of Washington public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-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
15.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
434 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
24.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -7.1pp since 2014
Math
22.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.6% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 17.6% | 15.3% |
| 2022-23 | 18.5% | 14.0% |
| 2021-22 | 20.4% | 13.0% |
| 2018-19 | 34.9% | 30.5% |
| 2017-18 | 29.5% | 29.1% |
| 2016-17 | 24.3% | 28.4% |
| 2015-16 | 30.3% | 28.6% |
| 2014-15 | 31.7% | 29.1% |
% 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
19.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Sunnycrest Elementary School
Sunnycrest Elementary School's state test result (19.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnycrest Elementary School this school | 535 | 81.1% | 19.8% |
| Wildwood Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 598 | 79.1% | 32.7% |
| Scenic Hill Elementary School Kent | 481 | 73.8% | 31.4% |
| Rainier View Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 495 | 78.4% | 21.8% |
| Helen Stafford Elementary School Tacoma | 453 | 74.4% | 30.0% |
| Valhalla Elementary School AUBURN | 517 | 75.2% | 35.4% |
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 Sunnycrest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #909 of 936 | #272 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #1,003 of 1,103 ▲ 59 | #264 of 281 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #1,027 of 1,102 ▲ 46 | #265 of 280 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.9pp | #182 of 928 | #43 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 535 | #203 of 1,268 | #52 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #413 of 1,085 | #97 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.0% | #145 of 1,088 | #85 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.1% | #104 of 1,169 | #9 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.7% | #476 of 778 | #147 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
535
+12 (+2%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 429
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 535 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 81% (434) |
| 2023-24 | 527 | 33.5 | 15.8:1 | 87% (458) |
| 2022-23 | 521 | 35.2 | 14.8:1 | 83% (434) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 37 | 14.1:1 | 89% (468) |
| 2017-18 | 620 | 37 | 16.8:1 | 87% (538) |
| 2015-16 | 577 | 33 | 17.5:1 | 73% (420) |
| 2010-11 | 369 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 58% (215) |
| 2000-01 | 476 | 25 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 429 | 17 | 25.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunnycrest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (620 to 535); teachers down 5% (37 to 35).
About Sunnycrest Elementary School
Sunnycrest Elementary School is an elementary school in KENT, Washington, and it is part of Federal Way School District. It had 535 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students, which makes this school 41% larger than average.
Federal Way School District has 43 schools and 22,250 students, and Sunnycrest Elementary School is one of those schools.
The largest group at Sunnycrest Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 39%. It is also 23% Asian, 13% multiracial, 12% White, and 11% Black. For comparison, the population of King County is roughly 11% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Sunnycrest Elementary School scores 75%.
For every teacher at Sunnycrest Elementary School, there are about 15.3 students; the school has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 434 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 81% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in King County is 38%.
On the allk12 Grade, Sunnycrest Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 8% of Washington public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Sunnycrest Elementary School would be expected to post about 25.8%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 19.8%.
The school is in King County, where 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.
Sunnycrest Elementary School's nearest public school is Parkside Elementary (about 1.1 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Sunnycrest Elementary School places 6th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Sunnycrest Elementary School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Enrollment at Sunnycrest Elementary School was 523 in 2020-21 and 535 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Students per teacher increased from 14.1 in 2020-21 to 15.3 in 2024-25.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in KENT
- Kentridge High SchoolHigh · 2,186 students
- Kent-Meridian High SchoolHigh · 1,639 students
- Kentlake High SchoolHigh · 1,561 students
- Mill Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 866 students
- Canyon Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 821 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
Other Sunnycrest Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Sunnycrest Elementary. Sunnycrest Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Sunnycrest Elementary SchoolLake Stevens, WA · 695 students
Nearby schools
- Parkside Elementary1.1 mi · 535
- River Ridge Elementary1.3 mi · 697
- Evergreen Middle School1.4 mi · 810
- Neely O Brien Elementary School1.4 mi · 472
- Star Lake Elementary School1.4 mi · 434
- Kent Elementary School1.4 mi · 438
Frequently asked questions
About Sunnycrest Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sunnycrest Elementary School?
Sunnycrest Elementary School enrolls approximately 535 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sunnycrest Elementary School serve?
Sunnycrest Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Sunnycrest Elementary School?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Sunnycrest Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sunnycrest Elementary School?
At Sunnycrest Elementary School, the student body is approximately 12% White, 39% Hispanic, 11% Black, 23% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Sunnycrest Elementary School in?
Sunnycrest Elementary School is part of Federal Way School District.
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