Tukwila Elementary

Located at 5939 S 149TH ST, in TUKWILA, Washington, Tukwila Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school that educates 458 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Tukwila School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Tukwila Elementary sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Tukwila School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,886 students; Tukwila Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tukwila Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 20% Black, 20% Asian, 13% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tukwila Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (King County) reports that median household earnings sit near $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Tukwila Elementary is one.

Thorndyke Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tukwila Elementary. On composite proficiency, Tukwila Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tukwila Elementary has edged down 15%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 458 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 29% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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