Ballot measure · Washington State
Auburn School District No. 408 Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025
Auburn School District No. 408 Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025 was on the 2025 ballot in King County, Washington. It passed with 52.6% voting yes, on 15,379 votes cast.
- 2025
- King County
- School Measure
- Proposition 1
- Passed
Source WA Secretary of State official election results · as of 2026-08-07
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The result
15,379
votes cast on this measure
Source WA Secretary of State certified election results · as of 2026-08-07
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What it costs you
We cannot calculate what this measure costs a household. That figure needs the levy rate per thousand dollars of assessed value, and the result export does not carry it — it records how people voted, not what they were voting on. We will not estimate it: a wrong number on a household tax bill is worse than no number. The rate is published in the county assessor’s levy certification and in the voters’ pamphlet for the election.
Last checked 2026-08-07
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The case for and against
Printed in the county voters’ pamphlet and mailed to every voter in the jurisdiction. Written by committees the jurisdiction appointed, and reproduced here exactly as they wrote them.
Statement in favor
Written by Jason Wright, Cary Manry
We urge a Yes vote on this bond to build a new middle school and replace Cascade Middle School and Alpac Elementary. Over 900 middle school students are currently learning in portables, and Alpac requires ongoing, costly repairs. Our students need safe, modern schools to succeed. This bond is a smart, responsible investment. The Auburn School District has a strong record of on-time, on-budget construction and has managed finances carefully by retiring debt—keeping the tax impact low. The projected cost is $1.04 per $1,000 of assessed value, or about $47.66 per month for a $550,000 home. Auburn voters have consistently supported education, and our community has seen the benefits. With no long-term plan from the state to fully fund school construction, it’s up to us to act. Let’s continue investing in our kids and our community. Vote Yes to build the schools our students deserve. Rebuttal of statement in opposition While interest rates are high, delaying school construction will cost more due to inflation and aging facilities. Auburn middle schools are over capacity and Cascade MS is severely outdated — needs state funding does not meet. Bond funds can’t raise salaries, but safe, modern classrooms boost learning. Property taxes aren’t perfect, yet they’re the most direct way to invest in our children today. Waiting risks higher costs and diminished educational quality for current and future students.
Statement in opposition
Written by Yuval Fleming
Auburn School District is a great asset to the Auburn community, teachers and support staff work tirelessly to provide a quality education to the students they serve. Well-funded schools are critical to economic prosperity a student achievement. However, now is not the right time to take out a $500 million bond for school construction. Interest rates are at record highs and our community faces an affordability crises. This bond would cost the average homeowner $12,000 over the course of 20 years. Student enrollment is extremely difficult to forecast, population growth in Auburn has plateaued in recent years and new restrictions on immigration at the federal level could significantly decrease student enrollment making it unnecessary to build new schools. This is not a prudent allocation of scarce resources as none of this revenue would be used to increase teacher pay or decrease class size the two most impactful instruments to improve student achievement. Lastly, the State of Washington should provide funding for school construction, continuing to rely on regressive property taxes is not equitable or sustainable and places an unfair financial burden on the working class and less affluent communities. Rebuttal of statement in favor No statement submitted.
Neither statement is fact-checked, by the county or by us. King County Elections prints these as the committees submit them and does not correct punctuation, grammar, or accuracy. They are arguments, not findings. We reproduce them because they are what voters were sent, and we take no position on the claims in either one.
Last checked 2026-08-07
Source King County voters’ pamphlet · as of 2026-08-07 · page 101 of the pamphlet
The pamphlet as published · archived copy, which is what we read
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Who is funding each side
Political committees registered with the Public Disclosure Commission that named this proposition number when they formed.
No committee named this proposition number. We searched PDC committee filings for proposition 1 in 2025 and found none. That can mean no committee formed, or that one formed without naming the number — the filings do not distinguish the two.
Last checked 2026-08-07
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What this county has asked before
Other school measures put to King County voters. Matched on county and measure kind — the results export carries no jurisdiction key, so these are comparable measures rather than provably the same body asking again.
Source WA Secretary of State certified election results · as of 2026-08-07 · 8 of 8 passed
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What this page will not compute
Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.
- What it costs a household
- Requires the levy rate per thousand of assessed value, which the results export does not carry. Stated above rather than estimated.
- Whether the money decided it
- We can show what each side raised and what the vote was. Connecting the two would be an inference about cause from two numbers, and campaign spending is not the only thing that moves a local levy.
- Whether this is the same body asking again
- Earlier measures are matched on county and kind, not on jurisdiction — the export has no jurisdiction key. A school district and its neighbour both appear as school measures in the same county.
- What the measure would have done
- The ballot title and the full text are not loaded. We hold the result, not the proposal.
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Common questions
- Did Auburn School District No. 408 Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025 pass?
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Yes, it passed. 52.6% voted yes on 15,379 votes cast.
- Which Proposition 1 is this?
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Proposition 1 on the 2025 ballot in King County, Washington. Several different measures can carry the same number on one county ballot, so the year, the county and the body asking are all needed to identify one.
- Where do these results come from?
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The Washington Secretary of State’s certified election results. We publish the certified canvass, not election-night returns.
- Why is there no argument for or against here?
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Washington publishes committee-written for and against statements for most local measures. We have not ingested them. Showing one side without the other would be worse than showing neither.
Cite this page
This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.
“Auburn School District No. 408 Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-08. https://washingtonindependents.org/measure/2025-king-prop-1-auburn-school-district-no-408-proposition-no-1/
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Where this page comes from
Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- WA Secretary of State certified election results
- The vote totals, the yes share and the outcome. Certified canvass, not election-night returns.
- Public Disclosure Commission committee registrations
- Committees formed for or against the measure, matched by the proposition number they registered. Committees that did not name a number are not linked here.
- Not loaded
- Ballot title and full text, the voters’ pamphlet for and against statements, and the levy rate. Each is named where the page would otherwise use it.