St. Francis of Assisi School is one of the larger Catholic K-8 parish schools in the Archdiocese of Seattle, serving Burien and the broader South King Deanery — Highline-corridor families from SeaTac, Normandy Park, and the Seahurst peninsula. Enrollment sits in the low-to-mid 400s with a student-teacher ratio in the high teens, and tuition for the eighth-grade year hovers near $11,000, on the higher end for parish schools in the region.
The school has been operating since 1953, when ten classrooms opened under the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur with more than 500 students from the start — an unusual debut size that reflected post-war South King's Catholic family demographics. The program now spans core academics, daily religion, Spanish, music, art, technology, and an athletic program covering eleven sports across middle-school grades, run through the CYO league shared by Archdiocese parish schools.
St. Francis is accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association (WCEA), the regional Catholic K-12 body. Among South King Deanery Catholic K-8s — St. Bernadette in Burien, St. Philomena in Des Moines, St. Anne in West Seattle — St. Francis is generally the largest by enrollment and is the natural feeder into Kennedy Catholic for high school in the South King Catholic pipeline.
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