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Frantz Coe Elementary School

Seattle Public Schools · Elementary · grades K-5 · 2424 7th Ave W, Seattle, WA 98119-2513

Location

2424 7th Ave W, Seattle, WA 98119-2513

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
86.1%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
86.5%
#18 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #3 of 62 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
70.2%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
69.5%
#12 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #2 of 62 in this district
3-year trend

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
11.6%
English language learners
5.4%
Highly Capable program
9.2%
Enrollment
467
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
30
Avg years experience
14.4
MA-degree share
93.3%
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.

Nearby schools

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Nearest middle schools by distance

Highly Capable / gifted pathway

Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.

Research dossier

Frantz Coe Elementary School

Seattle Public Schools · grades K–5 · 467 students · attendance-area neighborhood school in Upper Queen Anne

The verdict

Coe's defining tension is stated on its own website: more than half the students qualify for Highly Capable or Advanced Learner status, yet the school offers no cohort, no pull-outs, and, by explicit district alignment, no accelerated "Walk-to-Math" grouping (Coe academics page). Everything advanced happens inside the regular classroom, through differentiation, Beast Academy, and adaptive software. The remarkable part is that this apparently works at the population level. Against 95 demographically similar Washington elementaries, Coe ranks in the 96.8th percentile for advanced (Level 4) scores in English language arts. A generously funded parent-teacher association (PTA) buys the rest of the experience, paying for extra specialist instruction in physical education, arts, and library that district budgets alone wouldn't cover.

The fit question is about outliers, not averages. For a family wanting a warm, well-run neighborhood school where a bright kid will be surrounded by other bright kids, Coe is close to the platonic case. For a family whose child is several years ahead in math, the honest question is whether one teacher's in-class differentiation can serve that kid, because the district has removed every other tool.

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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