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What's the one class at Thurgood Marshall Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1·NCES 530771002347
Thurgood Marshall Elementary
2401 S IRVING ST, SEATTLE, WA 98144 · (206) 252-2800 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
195 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 47% smaller than its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
73.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.1pp since 2014
Math
80.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -3.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 80.4% |
| 2023-24 | 67.5% | 71.5% |
| 2022-23 | 73.4% | 69.9% |
| 2021-22 | 71.6% | 67.2% |
| 2018-19 | 76.1% | 74.1% |
| 2017-18 | 80.6% | 82.6% |
| 2016-17 | 79.3% | 80.8% |
| 2015-16 | 84.1% | 86.0% |
| 2014-15 | 86.2% | 83.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Thurgood Marshall Elementary
Thurgood Marshall Elementary's state test result (73.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurgood Marshall Elementary this school | 500 | 39.0% | 73.1% |
| Kimball Elementary School SEATTLE | 384 | 44.5% | 41.7% |
| Louisa Boren STEM K-8 Seattle | 437 | 36.6% | 41.8% |
| Fairwood Elementary School Renton | 355 | 41.4% | 43.6% |
| Expedition Elementary PUYALLUP | 530 | 51.3% | N/A |
| Parkwood Elementary Shoreline | 390 | 43.3% | 65.5% |
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 Thurgood Marshall Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #105 of 936 | #78 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.4% | #42 of 1,103 ▲ 73 | #33 of 281 ▲ 47 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #122 of 1,102 ▲ 70 | #84 of 280 ▲ 22 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.3pp | #163 of 928 | #38 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #289 of 1,268 | #76 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #307 of 1,085 | #69 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.6% | #51 of 1,088 | #30 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.0% | #812 of 1,169 | #136 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #538 of 778 | #164 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
500
+41 (+9%) vs 2020
+128% since 1990-91, when it was 219
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 500 | 33.6 | 14.9:1 | 39% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 33 | 14.2:1 | 42% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 32.5 | 14.6:1 | 45% (212) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 35% (160) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 31.7 | 17.6:1 | 33% (186) |
| 2015-16 | 527 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 26% (135) |
| 2010-11 | 423 | 25 | 16.9:1 | 41% (174) |
| 2000-01 | 345 | 23 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 219 | 18 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thurgood Marshall Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (560 to 500); teachers up 6% (31.7 to 33.6).
About Thurgood Marshall Elementary
Thurgood Marshall Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school found in SEATTLE, Washington. It enrolled 500 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 32% higher than the average for elementary schools in Washington, which is about 380.
Seattle School District No. 1 counts 107 schools and 50,773 students, including Thurgood Marshall Elementary.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Thurgood Marshall Elementary is White (29%). Other students are 22% Black, 18% Asian, 15% multiracial, and 15% Hispanic. That is lower than the 55% White share among all King County residents. Thurgood Marshall Elementary has a diversity index of 79%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 33.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.9:1. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in King County, the average is about the same, 38%.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Thurgood Marshall Elementary beats its 54.0% prediction with 73.1%, a top-10% result in Washington.
County data help place the school in context: in King County, median household income is about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. The public schools of King County number 544 and enroll about 278,492.
The school nearest to Thurgood Marshall Elementary is Washington Middle School, at a distance of about 0.6 miles. Within five miles of Thurgood Marshall Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Thurgood Marshall Elementary is 1st of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Thurgood Marshall Elementary went from 459 students to 500.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Seattle School District No. 1
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
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Other schools in SEATTLE
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other Thurgood Marshall Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 10 states are named Thurgood Marshall Elementary. Thurgood Marshall Elementary is the 6th largest of the 14.
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary SchoolMorrow, GA · 801 students
- Thurgood Marshall ElementaryOxnard, CA · 702 students
- Thurgood Marshall ElementaryManassas, VA · 642 students
- Thurgood Marshall ElementaryGaithersburg, MD · 553 students
- Thurgood Marshall ElementaryLynwood, CA · 511 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Middle School0.6 mi · 566
- Leschi Elementary School0.9 mi · 240
- Beacon Hill International School0.9 mi · 348
- Garfield High School1.0 mi · 1,507
- Summit Public School: Sierra1.0 mi · 214
- Bailey Gatzert Elementary School1.0 mi · 402
Frequently asked questions
About Thurgood Marshall ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Thurgood Marshall Elementary?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary enrolls approximately 500 students in grades PK-05.
Is Thurgood Marshall Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Thurgood Marshall Elementary have?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Thurgood Marshall Elementary?
Student demographics at Thurgood Marshall Elementary are roughly 29% White, 15% Hispanic, 22% Black, 18% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is Thurgood Marshall Elementary public or private?
Thurgood Marshall Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Seattle School District No. 1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.