NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Sammamish, WA

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14 public K-12 schools in Sammamish from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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14
Schools
11,366
Students
46.1/100
Avg Resource Index
19.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Resource breadth with tighter class loads

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sammamish has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sammamish's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

8 of Sammamish's 14 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Sammamish's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 75th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 19th percentile. The 56-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 16%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
75th percentile
Teacher staffing
19th percentile

Eastlake High School accounts for 21.8% of all Sammamish public-school enrollment

That concentration means Sammamish-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sammamish school enrollment varies 31× across entities

Sammamish school enrollment ranges from 80 students (lowest) to 2,481 students (highest), a spread of 2,401 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sammamish student-teacher ratio is 19.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Creekside Elementary 50
2. Christa Mcauliffe Elementary 50
3. Cascade Ridge Elementary 50
4. Sunny Hills Elementary 48
5. Cedar Trails Elementary 48
6. Skyline High School 47
7. Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary 47
8. Eastlake High School 45
9. Margaret Mead Elementary 45
10. Rachel Carson Elementary 45
11. Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning 45
12. Pine Lake Middle School 44
13. Samantha Smith Elementary 44
14. Inglewood Middle School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sammamish

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Skyline High School 65.7/100
  2. 2 Sunny Hills Elementary 64.9/100
  3. 3 Cedar Trails Elementary 64.4/100
  4. 4 Creekside Elementary 64.3/100
  5. 5 Eastlake High School 63.9/100

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Which Sammamish school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Creekside Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sammamish schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sammamish, WA? ▼

Sammamish has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,366 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.