Stevenson Elementary, Bellevue WA

Original Research by School Decision on Stevenson Elementary

Stevenson Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in Bellevue, a city that blends a high-rise downtown core with suburban neighborhoods set between Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish. The school is part of the Bellevue School District, one of the largest employers in a city dominated by technology companies. The school sits in a neighborhood where home values and rents are high, reflecting the broader King County market.

The student body is diverse, with Hispanic and Asian students making up the largest groups, followed by smaller shares of Black, White, and multiracial students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on the share of students with individualized education programs and English learner status was not available in the records we reviewed; a parent may want to ask the school directly about these supports.

Academically, Stevenson Elementary’s state assessment results fall at the lower end of the spectrum. The school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it in the bottom quartile relative to districts in King County. In math, the share of students meeting state standards was modest across grades three, four, and five. In English language arts, proficiency rates were similarly modest, with the fifth-grade rate slightly lower than the earlier grades. In science, only a limited share of fifth-graders met the standard. Because only a single year of test data is available, no trend can be drawn.

The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. The data also lacked information on chronic absenteeism, staff measures, discipline, and course access; these are common gaps for elementary schools, but a family interested in these details would need to look further.

Bellevue itself is a high-growth, high-cost city that has become a major center for technology employers, with companies such as Amazon, T-Mobile, and Meta among the largest. The city has added tens of thousands of jobs in recent years and has seen rapid residential and commercial development, especially around the new light rail corridor. The school sits within this dynamic, expensive market, where many families may be working in the tech sector or in other professional fields, while a significant share of Stevenson’s own students come from lower-income households.

The Bellevue School District did not appear to have recently reported major changes such as boundary shifts or program launches that would directly affect this school, based on the information we found.

Stevenson Elementary is a regular public school in a well-resourced, fast-changing city, but its state test results are lower than those of many other elementary schools in the county. A family considering this school may want to visit, speak with staff about how the school supports students who are behind grade level, and ask about the programs in place for the high proportion of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school’s location in a high-cost area and its diverse enrollment are factors to weigh alongside its academic profile.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 328%

School 28% · District 40% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 33 pts below county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 50% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 46% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 328%

School 28% · District 47% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 64% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 73% · ▼ 48 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 38 pts below county median

Science

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 73% · ▼ 45 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 33 pts below county median

This schoolBellevue School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income16%Higher-income44%29 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income15%Higher-income55%40 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income15%Higher-income50%35 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income10%Higher-income54%44 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income18%Higher-income58%41 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income22%Higher-income40%18 pp gap