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Rosa Parks Elementary

Lake Washington School District · Elementary · grades K-5 · 22845 NE Cedar Park Cres, Redmond, WA 98053-5887

Location

22845 NE Cedar Park Cres, Redmond, WA 98053-5887

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
81.9%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
84.9%
#21 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #5 of 32 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
62.0%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
66.6%
#17 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #4 of 32 in this district
3-year trend

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
6.6%
English language learners
14.3%
Highly Capable program
17.4%
Enrollment
453
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
32
Avg years experience
10.9
MA-degree share
87.5%
3-year experience trend

Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.

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Highly Capable / gifted pathway

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Research dossier

Rosa Parks Elementary

Lake Washington School District · grades K–5 · 453 students · attendance-area school serving Redmond Ridge · 2021 National Blue Ribbon awardee

The verdict

Rosa Parks offers a combination that barely exists on the Eastside: Blue Ribbon-tier results with the door actually open. For 2026-27 it sits on Lake Washington School District's Open Schools List, accepting in-district variances and out-of-district Choice transfers, while comparable district elementaries like Alcott, Audubon, Bell, Frost, and Redmond are closed. That opening is the tail end of a boom-and-settle arc: a campus that once crammed in 764 students with ten portables has cooled to a comfortable 453. The honest caveat comes from the school itself, whose improvement plan documents three straight years of slipping growth on the district's universal screener and says so candidly. Add the 2025-26 elimination of the Quest pull-out (Quest is the district's advanced-learning program), which moved all building-level advanced learning into the regular classroom, and the picture sharpens: outstanding outcomes and rare access, but families of already-advanced kids should ask hard questions about what differentiation looks like now, not what the trophy case says.

Researched 2026-06-10. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

That is the free excerpt. The full dossier is the rest of the file: how these outcomes hold up in context, how deep the advanced-peer group actually runs, how families get in (and who doesn't), culture signals from handbooks and climate surveys, logistics, neighborhood context, the open questions to ask on your tour, and every citation, so you can check our work. Unlock it for $9, or get a $29 Research Pass with 3 dossiers included.

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