Idlewild Elementary School

Set in Lakewood, Washington, Idlewild Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, part of Clover Park School District. It educates 380 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Clover Park School District, which oversees 32 schools and 12,345 students, Idlewild Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Idlewild Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 12% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Idlewild Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Idlewild Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Idlewild Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.6%; actual is 32.6%, a gap of -13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pierce County) reports that median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Idlewild Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Thomas Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Idlewild Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Idlewild Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 506 students in 2018 compared to 380 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 6% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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