Enrollment
376
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1·NCES 530771001182
West Seattle Elementary School
6760 34 AV SW, SEATTLE, WA 98126 · (206) 252-9450 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL376 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
303 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 28 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 29% larger than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
55%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
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
46.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.3pp since 2014
Math
36.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -22.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 23 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.9% | 36.9% |
| 2023-24 | 50.3% | 57.1% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 54.3% |
| 2021-22 | 51.0% | 48.6% |
| 2018-19 | 53.5% | 56.5% |
| 2017-18 | 48.1% | 55.1% |
| 2016-17 | 44.3% | 55.2% |
| 2015-16 | 50.9% | 56.7% |
| 2014-15 | 48.2% | 59.4% |
% 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
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% 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 18 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 West Seattle Elementary School
West Seattle Elementary School's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Seattle Elementary School this school | 376 | 80.6% | 43.9% |
| Bailey Gatzert Elementary School SEATTLE | 402 | 79.6% | 33.6% |
| Impact | Salish Sea Elementary Seattle | 385 | 66.8% | 44.5% |
| Impact Public Schools Tukwila | 505 | 69.7% | 48.0% |
| Wing Luke Elementary School SEATTLE | 334 | 71.6% | 33.8% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School SEATTLE | 289 | 73.0% | 31.6% |
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 West Seattle Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #543 of 936 | #187 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #733 of 1,103 ▼ 433 | #209 of 281 ▼ 69 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #577 of 1,102 ▼ 89 | #179 of 280 ▼ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.9pp | #64 of 928 | #22 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 376 | #727 of 1,268 | #204 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #7 of 1,085 | #5 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.9% | #646 of 1,088 | #243 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.6% | #109 of 1,169 | #12 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.1% | #428 of 778 | #135 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
376
-38 (-9%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 433
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 376 | 34.3 | 11.0:1 | 81% (303) |
| 2023-24 | 374 | 33.2 | 11.3:1 | 80% (301) |
| 2022-23 | 381 | 32.5 | 11.7:1 | 82% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 414 | 36 | 11.5:1 | 78% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 443 | 32.9 | 13.4:1 | 82% (362) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 32 | 13.5:1 | 67% (290) |
| 2010-11 | 377 | 24 | 15.7:1 | 84% (316) |
| 2000-01 | 327 | 20 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 433 | 20 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for West Seattle Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (443 to 376); teachers up 4% (32.9 to 34.3).
About West Seattle Elementary School
West Seattle Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in SEATTLE, Washington. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 376 students.
Seattle School District No. 1 enrolls 50,773 students in 107 schools, including West Seattle Elementary School.
At West Seattle Elementary School, Black students make up 65% of the student body. The remaining shares are 11% White, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. King County as a whole is about 7% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 34.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.0:1. That is lower than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 81%. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in King County, the school's rate is higher.
BeatsExpectations places West Seattle Elementary School in the top 10% of Washington schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 17.8 points above it (43.9% actual, 26.1% predicted).
According to the American Community Survey, in King County, the median household income is $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. There are 544 public schools in King County, enrolling about 278,492 students in all.
Roxhill Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles away. The five-mile area around West Seattle Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. West Seattle Elementary School ranks 3rd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 43.9% against a local average of 43.7%.
Locale data from NCES put West Seattle Elementary School inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Federal data show a 9% enrollment decrease, from 414 in 2020-21 to 376 in 2024-25.
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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
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Other schools in Seattle School District No. 1
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
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- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
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- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 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
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- Roxhill Elementary School0.6 mi · 289
- Sanislo Elementary School0.7 mi · 145
- Gatewood Elementary School0.7 mi · 400
- Louisa Boren STEM K-80.7 mi · 437
- Fairmount Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 357
- David T. Denny International Middle School0.9 mi · 722
Frequently asked questions
About West Seattle Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at West Seattle Elementary School?
West Seattle Elementary School enrolls approximately 376 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does West Seattle Elementary School serve?
West Seattle Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at West Seattle Elementary School?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at West Seattle Elementary School.
How diverse is West Seattle Elementary School?
West Seattle Elementary School reports a student body of 11% White, 8% Hispanic, 65% Black, 5% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees West Seattle Elementary School?
West Seattle Elementary School is overseen by Seattle School District No. 1 in King County.
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