St. Vincent de Paul School is a Pre-K-8 Catholic parish school in Federal Way, part of the Archdiocese of Seattle. Enrollment runs roughly 200-260 students with a 13.6:1 student-teacher ratio, and the school is a member of the National Catholic Educational Association.
Within the Federal Way / South King County Catholic K-8 landscape, St. Vincent de Paul is one of the few parish schools serving south of the Sea-Tac corridor. Closest peers operationally are St. Theresa (Federal Way), St. Stephen the Martyr (Renton), and St. Anne (Seattle — Auburn campus). Graduates who continue in Catholic education typically route to Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien, the Archdiocese's South King County Catholic high school. Compared with the more central Seattle parish schools (St. Joseph, Villa Academy), St. Vincent de Paul draws from a smaller and more geographically defined parish community.
The academic program follows Archdiocese standards — daily religion instruction, weekly Mass, and the standard parochial K-8 sequence with library, technology, and PE. Class sizes are small but the student-teacher ratio is higher than the most selective Seattle independents — the routine tradeoff for parish-school tuition. The school operates 180 days per year on a 6.5-hour day.
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