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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Lake Dolloff Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
543
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000439
Lake Dolloff Elementary School
4200 S 308TH ST, AUBURN, WA 98001 · (253) 945-2800 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL543 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of Washington public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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
17.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
441 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 113 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (113) is 40% larger than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
81%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
25.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -18.1pp since 2014
Math
24.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 18 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.2% | 24.4% |
| 2023-24 | 29.9% | 22.1% |
| 2022-23 | 33.6% | 31.3% |
| 2021-22 | 30.0% | 26.3% |
| 2018-19 | 39.3% | 36.7% |
| 2017-18 | 41.4% | 35.7% |
| 2016-17 | 31.9% | 33.1% |
| 2015-16 | 43.6% | 40.5% |
| 2014-15 | 43.3% | 38.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Lake Dolloff Elementary School
Lake Dolloff Elementary School's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Dolloff Elementary School this school | 543 | 81.2% | 25.9% |
| Parkside Elementary Des Moines | 535 | 80.2% | 24.7% |
| Lister Elementary School Tacoma | 376 | 78.7% | 28.2% |
| Manitou Park Elementary School Tacoma | 429 | 76.0% | 27.3% |
| Mirror Lake Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 491 | 82.3% | 21.9% |
| Panther Lake Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 427 | 83.8% | 24.0% |
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 Lake Dolloff Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #859 of 936 | #258 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #969 of 1,103 ▲ 30 | #254 of 281 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #1,018 of 1,102 ▼ 78 | #260 of 280 ▼ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.3pp | #207 of 928 | #62 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 543 | #188 of 1,268 | #50 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #817 of 1,085 | #211 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 81.1% | #6 of 1,088 | #2 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.2% | #103 of 1,169 | #8 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.0% | #117 of 257 | #26 of 54 |
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
543
+141 (+35%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 610
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 543 | 32 | 17.0:1 | 81% (441) |
| 2023-24 | 486 | 26 | 18.7:1 | 89% (434) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 25.5 | 18.4:1 | 85% (397) |
| 2020-21 | 402 | 27 | 14.9:1 | 69% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 489 | 28.1 | 17.4:1 | 69% (337) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 23 | 18.8:1 | 67% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 435 | 23 | 18.9:1 | 44% (191) |
| 2000-01 | 538 | 29 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 610 | 27 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Dolloff Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (489 to 543); teachers up 14% (28.1 to 32).
About Lake Dolloff Elementary School
Lake Dolloff Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in AUBURN, Washington. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 543 students in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Federal Way School District (43 schools, 22,250 students) runs Lake Dolloff Elementary School.
Black students make up 24% of enrollment at Lake Dolloff Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Next come 22% Hispanic, 20% White, 16% Asian, and 13% multiracial. That compares with about 7% Black among all King County residents. A diversity index of 81% means there is an 81% chance two randomly chosen students at Lake Dolloff Elementary School are from different groups.
The school's 32 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is close to this figure. Income data for the school show 81% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 38% average among public schools in King County.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Lake Dolloff Elementary School outscored 10%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Lake Dolloff Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (25.9%) and its predicted rate (25.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools.
In the wider King County area, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Lake Dolloff Elementary School shares King County with 543 other public schools.
Lake Dolloff Elementary School's nearest public school is Kilo Middle School (about 0.1 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Lake Dolloff Elementary School is 6th of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The federal government classifies Lake Dolloff Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 543, up from 402 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 17.0:1, from 14.9:1.
This page is set up for the Lake Dolloff Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 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
- Kilo Middle School0.1 mi · 669
- Camelot Elementary School0.5 mi · 292
- Evergreen Heights Elementary0.9 mi · 457
- Career Academy at Truman High School1.0 mi · 83
- Internet Academy1.0 mi · 370
- Open Doors Youth Reengagement (1418)1.0 mi · 154
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Dolloff Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lake Dolloff Elementary School?
Lake Dolloff Elementary School enrolls approximately 543 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lake Dolloff Elementary School serve?
Lake Dolloff Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Lake Dolloff Elementary School have?
Lake Dolloff Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Lake Dolloff Elementary School?
Student demographics at Lake Dolloff Elementary School are roughly 20% White, 22% Hispanic, 24% Black, 16% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Lake Dolloff Elementary School public or private?
Lake Dolloff Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Federal Way School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.