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| ==About the district==
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| ::''See also: [[Seattle Public Schools, Washington]]''
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| [[File:King County, Washington.png|200px|thumb|left|link=Seattle Public Schools, Washington|Seattle Public Schools is located in King County, Wash.]]Seattle Public Schools is based in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], the seat of [[King County, Washington|King County]], in northwestern [[Washington]]. The district was home to 625,570 residents, according to the United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 2009-2013 profile; 98,470 of those residents were children. The county was home to 1,974,567 residents in 2013, according to census estimates; 419,892 of those residents were under the age of 18.<ref name=NCES>[http://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/tables.aspx?ds=census&y=2010 ''National Center for Education Statistics'', "Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates: ACS Profile Tables 2009-13," accessed June 16, 2015]</ref><ref name=Census>[http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk ''United States Census Bureau'', "American FactFinder," accessed June 16, 2015]</ref> In the 2012-2013 school year, Seattle Public Schools was the [[Largest school districts in the United States by enrollment|largest school district]] in Washington and served 50,655 students.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/elsi/tableGenerator.aspx ''National Center for Education Statistics,'' "ELSI Table Generator," accessed April 15, 2015]</ref>
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| ! colspan="3" style="background-color:#00008B; color: white;" |'' Presidential Voting Pattern, King County<ref>[http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/archive.aspx ''King County Elections,'' "Election Archive," accessed September 24, 2013]</ref>
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| ===Demographics===
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| In 2013, King County outperformed the state of Washington as a whole in terms of higher education achievement, median household income and poverty rate. The United States Census Bureau found that 46.6 percent of county residents aged 25 and older had earned a bachelor's degree or higher while the rate was 32.1 percent for Washington as a whole.<ref name=Census/>
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| The county's median household income was $70,998 in comparison to $58,592 statewide. The rate of persons living below the poverty line in King County was 12.1 percent compared to 13.9 percent for the entire state; 15.4 percent of county children and 18.5 percent of children statewide lived below the poverty line.<ref name=Census/>
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| |<small>The graph above displays the racial demographics of the Seattle Public Schools' population of children and total residents to the residents of King County and the state of Washington. As the percentage of the population identifying as non-Hispanic or Latino white is greater than 50 percent in all of these geographic boundaries, the graph above has been adjusted to display only the percentage of people identifying as such above 50 percent. The full statistics for this graph can be found in the table beneath it. Click [show] on the right to expand the table.<ref name=NCES/><ref name=Census/></small>
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| '''<big>*</big>'''<small>"SPS children" refers to all persons under the age of 18 living in the district's geographic boundaries. It is not the enrolled student body of the district. "SPS total" refers to all persons living in the district's geographic boundaries.</small>
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| ! colspan="5" style="background-color:#00008B; color: white;" |'' Racial Demographics, 2013<ref name=NCES/><ref name=Census/>
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| ==Recent news== | | ==Recent news== |
Julie McCleery was a candidate for District 2 representative on the Seattle Board of Directors in Washington. McCleery filed to run in the general election on November 3, 2015, but withdrew from the race. McCleery's name did not appear on the ballot.[1]
Elections
2015
- See also: Seattle Public Schools elections (2015)
Four of the seven seats on the Seattle Board of Directors were up for election in 2015. Because more than two candidates filed for the District 3 and 6 seats, a primary election was held on August 4, 2015. The top two vote recipients in those races and the candidates for District 1 and 2 appeared on the general election ballot on November 3, 2015.
District 1 incumbent Sharon Peaslee, District 2 incumbent Sherry Carr, District 3 incumbent Harium Martin-Morris and District 6 incumbent Marty McLaren were up for re-election, but only McLaren filed to run for another term.[1]
The race for District 6 was the most competitive in 2015. Incumbent Marty McLaren faced challengers Leslie Harris and Nick Esparza in the primary. Harris and McLaren advanced to the general election, but the primary election results and campaign finance indicated a difficult general election race for the incumbent. McLaren placed second in the primary, more than 10 points behind Harris. As of campaign finance reports available on October 21, 2015, Harris had raised more than four times McLaren's campaign contributions and outspent her by a factor of almost seven. Harris defeated McLaren in the general election.
District 3 saw four candidates seeking the open seat: Lauren McGuire, David Blomstrom, Stephen Clayton and Jill Geary. Geary and McGuire advanced to the general election, garnering over $100,000 in combined campaign contributions as of October 21, 2015. Geary won the general election.
The District 1 and 2 seats saw just two candidates advance to the ballot each. Michael Christophersen and Scott Pinkham vied for the District 1 seat, while Laura Obara Gramer and Rick Burke ran for the District 2 seat.[1] Pinkham and Burke won election to the board.
Multiple candidates withdrew from their races prior to the deadline. Therefore, they did not appear on the ballot. Arik Korman withdrew from the District 1 race, Julie McCleery and Deborah Leblang withdrew from the District 2 race and Suzanne Sutton withdrew from the District 6 race.[1]
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