| K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 52 | 52 | 57 | 48 | 56 | 55 | 60 | 57 |
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25 school year, as reported to the WA State Board of Education.
NCES Private School Universe Survey, 2021-22 (the most recent federal collection). Private-school demographics are reported biennially and lag public-school data.
Catholic parish school in Burien, near Seahurst · K–8 · 488 students (WA SBE, 2024-25) · WCEA-accredited, inside Highline Public Schools' boundaries.
The published tuition here, $10,067 in-parish and $13,070 out-of-parish for 2026-27, is a floor, not a price. St. Francis layers on an annually audited parish-status test worth about $3,000 per child, a $400 fundraising-profit quota through the SCRIP gift-card program, a $250 auction procurement, and 30 volunteer hours billed at $40 apiece if unworked. A family that simply writes checks for all of it lands around $15,200 all-in per out-of-parish child. What that money buys is order and a pipeline: a strictly uniformed, swiftly disciplined, traditional Catholic K-8 whose cohorts hold steady into 8th grade. Graduates flow to Kennedy Catholic, Seattle Prep, O'Dea, Holy Names, and Bishop Blanchet, and notably into Raisbeck Aviation High School, the region's competitive public STEM school. Families comfortable inside the rules and the parish economy get a proven feeder at roughly half what secular independents charge. Families wanting progressive pedagogy, robust special education, or a religious opt-out should not try to bend this school into that shape. The live wildcard is structural: the Archdiocese has grouped the sponsoring parish into "Parish Family #21" with St. Bernadette, which runs its own K-8, and Our Lady of Lourdes, putting long-run questions over the subsidy and the campuses themselves.
Researched 2026-07-04. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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