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How has Valhalla Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
517
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000454
Valhalla Elementary School
27847 42ND AV S, AUBURN, WA 98001 · (253) 945-4300 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL517 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
389 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 | 104 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 13% larger 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 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
41.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.2pp since 2014
Math
39.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 1 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 | 41.3% | 39.7% |
| 2023-24 | 31.3% | 32.0% |
| 2022-23 | 31.8% | 27.1% |
| 2021-22 | 35.3% | 26.6% |
| 2018-19 | 48.3% | 42.3% |
| 2017-18 | 51.0% | 50.5% |
| 2016-17 | 48.6% | 48.6% |
| 2015-16 | 48.8% | 46.3% |
| 2014-15 | 42.5% | 42.6% |
% 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
35.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Valhalla Elementary School
Valhalla Elementary School's state test result (35.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valhalla Elementary School this school | 517 | 75.2% | 35.4% |
| Scenic Hill Elementary School Kent | 481 | 73.8% | 31.4% |
| Wildwood Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 598 | 79.1% | 32.7% |
| Blix Elementary School Tacoma | 442 | 71.9% | 29.0% |
| Sheridan Elementary School Tacoma | 525 | 69.1% | 30.7% |
| Cedar Valley Elementary LYNNWOOD | 427 | 73.8% | 21.6% |
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 Valhalla Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #713 of 936 | #221 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #668 of 1,103 ▲ 150 | #196 of 281 ▲ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #710 of 1,102 ▲ 206 | #203 of 280 ▲ 35 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.6pp | #90 of 928 | #19 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 517 | #248 of 1,268 | #65 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #871 of 1,085 | #227 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #226 of 1,088 | #123 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.2% | #176 of 1,169 | #26 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.9% | #523 of 778 | #160 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
517
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 532
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 517 | 30 | 17.2:1 | 75% (389) |
| 2023-24 | 536 | 31 | 17.3:1 | 74% (399) |
| 2022-23 | 523 | 30 | 17.5:1 | 78% (407) |
| 2020-21 | 535 | 32 | 16.7:1 | 73% (391) |
| 2017-18 | 587 | 36.5 | 16.1:1 | 72% (420) |
| 2015-16 | 573 | 35 | 16.4:1 | 72% (413) |
| 2010-11 | 518 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 48% (249) |
| 2000-01 | 544 | 23 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 22 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Valhalla Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (587 to 517); teachers down 18% (36.5 to 30).
About Valhalla Elementary School
Valhalla Elementary School is a public mid-sized elementary school in AUBURN, Washington. The school counted 517 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. It has 36% more students than the average for elementary schools in Washington (about 380).
Federal Way School District counts 22,250 students in its 43 schools, and Valhalla Elementary School is one of them.
Hispanic students account for 47% of enrollment at Valhalla Elementary School, more than any other group. Other students are 15% White, 13% Asian, 11% Black, and 10% multiracial. By comparison, King County residents are about 11% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Valhalla Elementary School scores 72%.
Valhalla Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is close to this figure. At Valhalla Elementary School, 75% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in King County averages 38%, lower than here.
A school with Valhalla Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Washington is predicted to score 29.7%. Valhalla Elementary School scores 35.4%, 5.7 points above that line.
In King County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 544 public schools and about 278,492 students.
Thomas Jefferson High School is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 31.3%; Valhalla Elementary School's is 35.4%, ranking 4th of 9.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 18 students, from 535 to 517.
On allk12, people connected to Valhalla Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 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
Other Valhalla Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Valhalla Elementary. Valhalla Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Valhalla ElementaryPleasant Hill, CA · 721 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson High School0.5 mi · 1,810
- Star Lake Elementary School0.6 mi · 434
- Evergreen Middle School0.7 mi · 810
- Mark Twain Elementary School0.8 mi · 531
- Camelot Elementary School1.2 mi · 292
- Wildwood Elementary School1.6 mi · 598
Frequently asked questions
About Valhalla Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Valhalla Elementary School?
Valhalla Elementary School enrolls approximately 517 students in grades PK-05.
Is Valhalla Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Valhalla Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Valhalla Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Valhalla Elementary School is approximately 17.2:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Valhalla Elementary School?
At Valhalla Elementary School, the student body is approximately 15% White, 47% Hispanic, 11% Black, 13% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Valhalla Elementary School public or private?
Valhalla Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Federal Way School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.