Greenwood Elementary School vs Viewlands Elementary School

Viewlands Elementary School ranks #12 of 2225 schools in Washington, placing it in the top 1% statewide. Greenwood Elementary School earns a strong #115 in the same ranking — top 6% — but trails Viewlands by 0.6 rating points overall (8.8 vs 9.4 out of 10). Both schools serve PK–05 and sit 1.3 miles apart in Seattle, making this a genuine neighborhood choice with meaningful performance differences underneath the surface similarity.

On academics, the schools flip: Greenwood Elementary School scores 9.5/10 versus Viewlands Elementary School's 9.0/10, a half-point edge in raw proficiency. But Viewlands reverses that gap decisively on growth, scoring 9.9/10 against Greenwood's 8.6/10 — a 1.3-point difference that suggests Viewlands moves students further from their starting point each year, regardless of where they enter. For families weighing current proficiency against year-over-year learning gains, that tension is the central trade-off between these two schools.

The demographics diverge sharply. Greenwood Elementary School enrolls 324 students with 8% qualifying for free or reduced lunch, signaling a low-poverty population. Viewlands Elementary School enrolls 267 students with 38% on free or reduced lunch — a 30-percentage-point gap that reflects meaningfully different student needs and school contexts. Viewlands also carries a tighter student-teacher ratio, 15.7:1 versus Greenwood's 17.1:1, giving it roughly one fewer student per teacher on average.

Both schools operate across the same grade span, PK–05, so there is no structural difference in the years covered or transition points a family would face. The distinction is entirely in outcomes and composition: Greenwood delivers higher measured proficiency in a lower-poverty setting with a slightly larger class load, while Viewlands achieves exceptional growth — the top 1% in Washington — with a more economically diverse student body and more instructional attention per student.