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Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030000698
Ilalko Elementary School
301 ORAVETZ PL SE, AUBURN, WA 98092 · (253) 931-4748 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
295 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 20 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
40.5%
WA avg 58.4% . -15.8pp since 2014
Math
40.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -16.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 16 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 16 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.5% | 40.8% |
| 2023-24 | 42.3% | 41.2% |
| 2022-23 | 39.9% | 42.1% |
| 2021-22 | 45.9% | 44.6% |
| 2018-19 | 52.9% | 53.8% |
| 2017-18 | 56.7% | 60.4% |
| 2016-17 | 54.8% | 58.8% |
| 2015-16 | 55.4% | 60.5% |
| 2014-15 | 56.3% | 56.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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%.
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 Ilalko Elementary School
Ilalko Elementary School's state test result (42.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilalko Elementary School this school | 468 | 63.0% | 42.1% |
| Fawcett Elementary School Tacoma | 426 | 65.3% | 32.4% |
| Nautilus K-8 School FEDERAL WAY | 469 | 66.3% | 44.3% |
| Lakeland Elementary School AUBURN | 418 | 61.0% | 36.1% |
| Chase Lake Elementary EDMONDS | 413 | 57.1% | 36.5% |
| Lyon Elementary School Tacoma | 381 | 67.7% | 39.6% |
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 Ilalko Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #582 of 936 | #190 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #645 of 1,103 ▼ 36 | #190 of 281 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #736 of 1,102 ▼ 74 | #207 of 280 ▼ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.7pp | #156 of 928 | #48 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #389 of 1,268 | #107 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #483 of 1,085 | #114 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.5% | #80 of 1,088 | #46 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.0% | #386 of 1,169 | #74 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.9% | #181 of 778 | #68 of 220 |
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
468
-37 (-7%) vs 2020
-27% since 2000-01, when it was 642
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 468 | 30 | 15.6:1 | 63% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 479 | 29.5 | 16.2:1 | 63% (303) |
| 2022-23 | 493 | 28 | 17.6:1 | 65% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 54% (273) |
| 2017-18 | 632 | 35.4 | 17.9:1 | 50% (318) |
| 2015-16 | 596 | 33 | 18.1:1 | 55% (328) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 26 | 20.6:1 | 34% (183) |
| 2000-01 | 642 | 29 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ilalko Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (632 to 468); teachers down 15% (35.4 to 30).
About Ilalko Elementary School
Ilalko Elementary School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in AUBURN, Washington. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 468 students. It has 23% more students than the average for elementary schools in Washington (about 380).
The district for Ilalko Elementary School is Auburn School District, with 26 schools and 18,174 students.
The biggest share of students at Ilalko Elementary School, 31%, is Hispanic. Next come 30% White, 11% Asian, 10% Black, and 9% Pacific Islander. That compares with about 11% Hispanic among all King County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 78%.
Ilalko Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.6:1. Elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1, 1.7 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 63% at Ilalko Elementary School. Public schools in King County average 38%.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 37.9% at Ilalko Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 42.1%.
The county, King County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 544, with about 278,492 students.
Auburn Riverside High School is the nearest public school to Ilalko Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 41.5%, lower than Ilalko Elementary School's 42.1%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment fell by 7% across 4 years, from 505 in 2020-21 to 468 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Ilalko Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Auburn School District
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
Nearby schools
- Auburn Riverside High School0.4 mi · 1,852
- Mt Baker Middle School0.8 mi · 917
- Lakeland Hills Elementary0.9 mi · 512
- Alpac Elementary School1.1 mi · 534
- Gildo Rey Elementary School1.1 mi · 416
- Pioneer Elementary School1.8 mi · 621
Frequently asked questions
About Ilalko Elementary SchoolHow large is Ilalko Elementary School?
Ilalko Elementary School enrolls approximately 468 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Ilalko Elementary School serve?
Ilalko Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Ilalko Elementary School have?
Ilalko Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Ilalko Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ilalko Elementary School are roughly 30% White, 31% Hispanic, 10% Black, 11% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Ilalko Elementary School?
Ilalko Elementary School is overseen by Auburn School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.