# Rachel Carson Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530423003242`
- **School name**: Rachel Carson Elementary
- **Location**: Sammamish, WA 98074
- **Address**: 1035 - 244th Ave NE
- **District**: Lake Washington School District (LEAID `5304230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 47.61930, -122.01568
- **Phone**: (425)936-2750

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 486
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 2.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 10
  - proficiency_math_decile: 10
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 10
  - growth_ela_decile: 7
  - growth_math_decile: 9
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 8
  - el_progress_decile: 10
  - regularattendance_decile: 9
  - sqss_combined_decile: 9
  - _2025_score: 8.95
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (11 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.1%
- **Black/African American**: 45.7%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 9.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 2.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.3% — 65 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,841
- **Federal share**: $163
- **State + local share**: $17,677
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 499
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,633,062
- **Federal share**: 5.9%
- **State share**: 58.6%
- **Local share**: 35.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,950,732

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $250,001
- **Poverty rate**: 3.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 82.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,782
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.4 miles (QUENDALL TERMINALS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.24 miles (LAKE WASHINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAMMAMISH PLATEAU WATER & SEWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.84397 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Discovery Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 2% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Cascade Ridge Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 1.8% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Sunny Hills Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 1.75% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Creekside Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 1.75% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Puesta del Sol Elementary School** — 5.8 mi away, 0.58% (this school: 2.25%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/rachel-carson-elementary-sammamish/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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