Clear Lake Elementary School

Clear Lake Elementary School is one of the cozy primary schools in Clear Lake, Washington, run under Sedro-Woolley School District, with 314 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Across the 11 schools in Sedro-Woolley School District (4,600 students total), Clear Lake Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Clear Lake Elementary School logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Skagit County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Clear Lake Elementary School logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Clear Lake Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Skagit County's rate of about 56%.

After controlling for student poverty, Clear Lake Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Skagit County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,263, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Skagit County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,298 students), of which Clear Lake Elementary School is one.

Sedro Woolley Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clear Lake Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clear Lake Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clear Lake Elementary School has rose 3%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 314 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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