1
What's the biggest difference between Bonney Lake Elementary and what you expected?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
435
Elementary
DISTRICT 487 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMNER-BONNEY LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530861001441
Bonney Lake Elementary
18715 80th St E, Bonney Lake, WA 98390 · (253) 891-4450 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL435 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Washington public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
168 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 4 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
74.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -2.7pp since 2014
Math
76.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.2% | 76.1% |
| 2023-24 | 68.3% | 69.1% |
| 2022-23 | 71.3% | 72.3% |
| 2021-22 | 58.3% | 66.1% |
| 2018-19 | 63.8% | 74.4% |
| 2017-18 | 65.4% | 73.7% |
| 2016-17 | 69.6% | 76.0% |
| 2015-16 | 69.6% | 80.6% |
| 2014-15 | 76.9% | 76.0% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Washington's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bonney Lake Elementary
Bonney Lake Elementary's state test result (71.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonney Lake Elementary this school | 435 | 38.6% | 71.7% |
| Silverdale Elementary SILVERDALE | 413 | 36.3% | 58.2% |
| Crestwood Elementary Bonney Lake | 393 | 38.7% | 65.4% |
| Pioneer Elementary Arlington | 501 | 39.3% | 43.5% |
| Northern Heights Elementary Schl Bellingham | 396 | 35.9% | 52.0% |
| Shadow Lake Elementary Maple Valley | 479 | 35.5% | 60.7% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bonney Lake Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #121 of 936 | #9 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.1% | #76 of 1,103 ▲ 63 | #3 of 142 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.2% | #104 of 1,102 ▲ 73 | #7 of 142 ▲ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.0pp | #41 of 928 | #10 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 435 | #501 of 1,268 | #74 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #760 of 1,085 | #93 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.4% | #683 of 1,088 | #123 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.6% | #824 of 1,169 | #114 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.2% | #267 of 778 | #27 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
435
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 597
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 435 | 26 | 16.7:1 | 39% (168) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 26.5 | 16.0:1 | 39% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 29.3 | 15.2:1 | 36% (160) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 26 | 17.0:1 | 27% (120) |
| 2017-18 | 552 | 28.3 | 19.5:1 | 33% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 27 | 19.3:1 | 37% (192) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 20 | 21.9:1 | 38% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 478 | 25 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 597 | 25 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bonney Lake Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (552 to 435); teachers down 8% (28.3 to 26).
About Bonney Lake Elementary
Bonney Lake, Washington, is home to Bonney Lake Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 435 students.
Bonney Lake Elementary reports to Sumner-Bonney Lake School District, which has 15 schools and 10,743 students.
Federal enrollment data show Bonney Lake Elementary is 65% White. The remaining shares are 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Pierce County overall, the White share is about 64%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.
Bonney Lake Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 16.7:1. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is close to this figure. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 39% at Bonney Lake Elementary. That rate is below the 50% average among public schools in Pierce County.
On the allk12 Grade, Bonney Lake Elementary lands at A+, ahead of 99% of Washington public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bonney Lake Elementary is in the top 10% of Washington schools: 71.7% actual against 54.3% predicted.
For Pierce County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $99,564, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 287 public schools and about 138,462 students.
Emerald Hills Elementary, about 1.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Bonney Lake Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Bonney Lake Elementary places 1st out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 435, close to the 443 recorded in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the Bonney Lake Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sumner-Bonney Lake School District
- Sumner High SchoolHigh · 1,857 students
- Bonney Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 937 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 763 students
- Sumner Middle SchoolMiddle · 674 students
- Donald Eismann ElementaryElementary · 648 students
Other schools in Bonney Lake
- Bonney Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 937 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 763 students
- Donald Eismann ElementaryElementary · 648 students
- Tehaleh Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 627 students
- Emerald Hills ElementaryElementary · 551 students
Nearby schools
- Emerald Hills Elementary1.3 mi · 551
- Lakeridge Middle School1.4 mi · 763
- Bonney Lake High School1.8 mi · 1,643
- Mountain View Middle School2.0 mi · 937
- Victor Falls Elementary2.1 mi · 513
- Maple Lawn Elementary2.6 mi · 628
Frequently asked questions
About Bonney Lake ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Bonney Lake Elementary?
Bonney Lake Elementary enrolls approximately 435 students in grades PK-05.
Is Bonney Lake Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bonney Lake Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bonney Lake Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bonney Lake Elementary is approximately 16.7:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bonney Lake Elementary?
At Bonney Lake Elementary, the student body is approximately 65% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Bonney Lake Elementary public or private?
Bonney Lake Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sumner-Bonney Lake School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.