Enrollment
610
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030000041
Terminal Park Elementary School
1101 D St SE, AUBURN, WA 98002 · (253) 931-4978 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL610 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
423 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 53 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
44.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -16.5pp since 2014
Math
45.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -17.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 17 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 17 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.7% | 45.6% |
| 2023-24 | 33.9% | 42.2% |
| 2022-23 | 43.9% | 44.8% |
| 2021-22 | 48.4% | 47.1% |
| 2018-19 | 51.9% | 51.7% |
| 2017-18 | 56.3% | 60.4% |
| 2016-17 | 48.1% | 53.6% |
| 2015-16 | 41.1% | 53.5% |
| 2014-15 | 61.2% | 62.8% |
% 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
41.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Terminal Park Elementary School
Terminal Park Elementary School's state test result (41.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal Park Elementary School this school | 610 | 69.3% | 41.8% |
| Challenger Elementary Everett | 658 | 67.9% | 36.7% |
| Emerson Elementary School Everett | 662 | 74.5% | 42.5% |
| Sheridan Elementary School Tacoma | 525 | 69.1% | 30.7% |
| Discovery Elementary Everett | 648 | 63.4% | 30.3% |
| Hillside Elementary School JBLM Lewis Main | 567 | 64.4% | 38.1% |
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 Terminal Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #590 of 936 | #191 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #523 of 1,103 ▲ 65 | #176 of 281 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #633 of 1,102 ▲ 235 | #186 of 280 ▲ 48 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.6pp | #243 of 928 | #76 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 610 | #91 of 1,268 | #17 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #723 of 1,085 | #187 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.4% | #131 of 1,088 | #76 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.3% | #272 of 1,169 | #56 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.3% | #54 of 257 | #16 of 54 |
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
610
+151 (+33%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 473
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 610 | 36.7 | 16.6:1 | 69% (423) |
| 2023-24 | 549 | 35.8 | 15.3:1 | 77% (420) |
| 2022-23 | 345 | 27.5 | 12.6:1 | 71% (246) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 34 | 13.5:1 | 67% (306) |
| 2017-18 | 503 | 30.5 | 16.5:1 | 66% (333) |
| 2015-16 | 443 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 71% (314) |
| 2010-11 | 434 | 21 | 20.7:1 | 47% (204) |
| 2000-01 | 454 | 21 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 473 | 22 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Terminal Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (503 to 610); teachers up 20% (30.5 to 36.7).
About Terminal Park Elementary School
Terminal Park Elementary School is a large elementary school with an address in AUBURN, Washington. It had 610 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 61% higher.
Terminal Park Elementary School is one of 26 schools in Auburn School District, which enrolls 18,174 students in total.
No group is above 50% at Terminal Park Elementary School; the largest is Hispanic, at 40%. It is also 24% White, 10% Asian, 9% Black, and 9% Pacific Islander. King County's residents are about 11% Hispanic, 29 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Terminal Park Elementary School scores 75%.
The school has 36.7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 16.6 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The school reported 69% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in King County average 38%.
After adjusting for student poverty, Terminal Park Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.8%; the prediction is 33.7%.
Looking at the county, King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Terminal Park Elementary School.
Olympic Middle School sits about 0.6 miles from Terminal Park Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Terminal Park Elementary School places 1st of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
In the federal locale system, Terminal Park Elementary School is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school grew from 459 students in 2020-21 to 610 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.5:1 to 16.6:1.
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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 Auburn School District
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
Nearby schools
- Olympic Middle School0.6 mi · 956
- Washington Elementary School0.7 mi · 501
- Auburn Senior High School0.8 mi · 1,918
- Pioneer Elementary School0.8 mi · 621
- West Auburn Senior High School0.9 mi · 506
- Auburn Opportunity Project0.9 mi · 92
Frequently asked questions
About Terminal Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Terminal Park Elementary School?
Terminal Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 610 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Terminal Park Elementary School serve?
Terminal Park Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Terminal Park Elementary School?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at Terminal Park Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Terminal Park Elementary School?
At Terminal Park Elementary School, the student body is approximately 24% White, 40% Hispanic, 9% Black, 10% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Terminal Park Elementary School public or private?
Terminal Park Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Auburn School District.
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