Address: 3015 S 368th St

               Federal Way, WA 98003

Phone: 253.945.3700

Website: www.fwps.org/rainierview

Fax: 253.945.3737

Principal: Kara Maphosa

Assistant Principal: Shannon Henry

Counseling: Kayla Petone

Grades: PK-5

Year School was Built: 1990

The mission of Rainier View Elementary School is to empower our diverse community to be lifelong learners by inspiring growth, discovery, and the building of a bright future.   

Our school goals align with the district strategic plan:

Goal 2– Whole Child: Thriving, Confident, Responsible Individuals.

Pride Points

• Ensure systems for social-emotional support are implemented school-wide; all staff and students are taught, provided with frequent feedback to implement with fidelity.  
• Building wide full implementation of TIER 1 PBIS,  

Area of Focus:

Tier II PBIS and a school-wide MTSS System will provide additional systems for instruction and differentiation to support positive behaviors. Eliminating 100% disproportionality in discipline data 

Goal 4- Content-Area Competence: Mastery of All Subjects

Pride Points

• Use principles of UDL to design learning that provides challenge, attainability, and access to grade-level standards for each scholar.
• In order to support high quality instruction in reading, 100% of our primary classrooms have implemented the researched based essential strategy filled comprehensive reading curriculum Fundations

Area of Focus

Our focus is on high quality instruction in order to ensure 80% of our scholars are meeting or exceeding grade level standards in math and reading. We will be using formative assessments and feedback to guide instruction

Our parents and community members can get involved by joining PTA and attending our Family Advisory sessions.

Check out our school’s progress at www.fwps.org/SchoolImprovement

Check out www.fwps.org/athletics or contact our school for a current list of available athletics teams.

You can find data for all schools on Washington’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s website including scholar demographics, teacher information, free and reduced lunch rate, school funding and financial resources, and assessment data at reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us.

Also, check out the FWPS Data Dashboard on our website: www.fwps.org and click on the “Data Dashboard” icon at the top of the page.