Enrollment
297
Elementary
DISTRICT 344 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLINGHAM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530042003225
Wade King Elementary School
2155 Yew Street Rd, Bellingham, WA 98229 · (360) 676-6840 · Whatcom County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL297 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
65 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 4 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
51.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -16.8pp since 2014
Math
49.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -25.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 26 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.3% | 49.3% |
| 2023-24 | 52.2% | 50.9% |
| 2022-23 | 57.6% | 48.5% |
| 2021-22 | 55.3% | 39.2% |
| 2018-19 | 62.7% | 51.2% |
| 2017-18 | 60.5% | 56.3% |
| 2016-17 | 65.8% | 66.4% |
| 2015-16 | 70.0% | 67.4% |
| 2014-15 | 68.1% | 75.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 66% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Wade King Elementary School
Wade King Elementary School's state test result (53.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wade King Elementary School this school | 297 | 21.9% | 53.6% |
| Maltby Elementary Snohomish | 334 | 25.7% | 60.8% |
| Silver Beach Elementary School Bellingham | 357 | 23.8% | 68.9% |
| Wilson Elementary Spokane | 307 | 18.6% | 75.3% |
| Discovery Elementary School Gig Harbor | 380 | 25.3% | 73.3% |
| Ordway Elementary Bainbridge Island | 320 | 17.2% | 73.8% |
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 Wade King Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Whatcom County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #374 of 936 | #9 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #452 of 1,103 ▼ 34 | #7 of 30 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #480 of 1,102 ▼ 32 | #8 of 30 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.1pp | #367 of 928 | #12 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 297 | #961 of 1,268 | #25 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #678 of 1,085 | #17 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #960 of 1,088 | #29 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.9% | #1,014 of 1,169 | #34 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.7% | #154 of 778 | #2 of 20 |
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
297
-36 (-11%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 405
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 297 | 18.1 | 16.4:1 | 22% (65) |
| 2023-24 | 315 | 20.6 | 15.3:1 | 23% (74) |
| 2022-23 | 346 | 24.5 | 14.1:1 | 24% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 24 | 13.9:1 | 19% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 411 | 24.3 | 16.9:1 | 20% (81) |
| 2015-16 | 430 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 20% (88) |
| 2010-11 | 405 | 19 | 21.3:1 | 14% (57) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wade King Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (411 to 297); teachers down 25% (24.3 to 18.1).
About Wade King Elementary School
Wade King Elementary School is a small elementary school in Washington, with an address in Bellingham. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 297 students in 2024-25. The school is 22% below the average for elementary schools in Washington.
Bellingham School District oversees Wade King Elementary School and 24 other schools, with 11,337 students in total.
About 78% of the student body at Wade King Elementary School is White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Whatcom County residents are about 78% White, a similar share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 37, compared with 70 nationally.
Wade King Elementary School has 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1. At Wade King Elementary School, 22% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 47% average for public schools in Whatcom County is 25 points.
Wade King Elementary School scores 11.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 53.6% actual versus 65.5% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Whatcom County, median household income comes to about $81,784, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Whatcom County has 78 public schools with about 27,779 students, including Wade King Elementary School.
Sehome High School sits about 1.9 miles from Wade King Elementary School. Wade King Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 53.6% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Mid-size.
The school's enrollment fell 11% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.4:1) than in 2020-21 (13.9:1).
This page collects posts and questions about Wade King Elementary School, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Whatcom County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,503
Census ACS
Median income
$81,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
27,779 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellingham School District
- Squalicum High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Bellingham High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Sehome High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- Whatcom Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Shuksan Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Fairhaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 588 students
Other schools in Bellingham
- Squalicum High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Bellingham High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Sehome High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- Whatcom Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Shuksan Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Fairhaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 588 students
Nearby schools
- Sehome High School1.9 mi · 1,116
- Happy Valley Elementary School1.9 mi · 455
- Kulshan Middle School2.0 mi · 575
- Carl Cozier Elementary School2.2 mi · 325
- Bellingham Family Partnership Program2.4 mi · 258
- Lowell Elementary School2.7 mi · 338
Frequently asked questions
About Wade King Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wade King Elementary School?
Wade King Elementary School enrolls approximately 297 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Wade King Elementary School serve?
Wade King Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wade King Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wade King Elementary School is approximately 16.4:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wade King Elementary School?
At Wade King Elementary School, the student body is approximately 78% White, 11% Hispanic, 0% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Wade King Elementary School public or private?
Wade King Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bellingham School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.