Ancient Lakes Elementary
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
About Ancient Lakes Elementary
Ancient Lakes Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Quincy, Washington, part of Quincy School District. The school instructs 385 students in grades K through 5.
Ancient Lakes Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Quincy School District, a district that instructs 3,162 students overall.
Demographically, Ancient Lakes Elementary shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 14% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ancient Lakes Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Ancient Lakes Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.3%; this one delivers 24.2%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Grant County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,267, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Grant County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students), Ancient Lakes Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Quincy Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Ancient Lakes Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ancient Lakes Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
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