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Clover Park High School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 22% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Clover Park High School
Located at 11023 Gravelly LK DR SW, in Lakewood, Washington, Clover Park High School is a high-enrollment 9-12 campus that enrolls 1,161 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Clover Park School District. Enrollment runs roughly 103% above the state mean of about 573.
Clover Park High School is one of 32 schools operated by Clover Park School District, a district that caters to 12,345 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Clover Park High School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 14% White, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Clover Park High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Pierce County's rate of about 50%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clover Park High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.3%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,564, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Clover Park High School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).
Nearest neighbor: Special Education Services/relife, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clover Park High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clover Park High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.2%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Looking at the recent track record. Clover Park High School's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,283 (now 1,161). Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.
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