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What's the biggest difference between Lake Hills Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
498
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530039000075
Lake Hills Elementary
14310 SE 12th Street, Bellevue, WA 98007 · (425) 456-5300 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% of Washington public elementary schools
- CTest 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.
- BThree-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
15.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
330 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 47 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
36.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.6pp since 2014
Math
38.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -3.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.8% | 38.5% |
| 2023-24 | 38.5% | 35.8% |
| 2022-23 | 39.5% | 34.6% |
| 2021-22 | 37.7% | 32.7% |
| 2018-19 | 39.5% | 29.7% |
| 2017-18 | 44.7% | 37.3% |
| 2016-17 | 44.5% | 44.1% |
| 2015-16 | 45.0% | 49.5% |
| 2014-15 | 47.4% | 42.1% |
% 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
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Hills Elementary
Lake Hills Elementary's state test result (36.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Hills Elementary this school | 498 | 66.3% | 36.9% |
| Odyssey Elementary Everett | 526 | 62.4% | 35.7% |
| Neely O Brien Elementary School Kent | 472 | 66.9% | 37.0% |
| Des Moines Elementary Des Moines | 500 | 62.6% | 37.1% |
| Renton Park Elementary School Renton | 393 | 65.1% | 26.8% |
| Star Lake Elementary School KENT | 434 | 70.0% | 41.0% |
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 Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #688 of 936 | #214 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #696 of 1,103 ▲ 31 | #204 of 281 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #830 of 1,102 ▼ 52 | #221 of 280 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.4pp | #411 of 928 | #108 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #292 of 1,268 | #78 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #345 of 1,085 | #81 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.9% | #146 of 1,088 | #86 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.3% | #333 of 1,169 | #68 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.8% | #767 of 778 | #217 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
498
+37 (+8%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 498 | 33.1 | 15.0:1 | 66% (330) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 29.1 | 14.8:1 | 67% (288) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 31.9 | 13.6:1 | 66% (287) |
| 2020-21 | 461 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 52% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 502 | 33.3 | 15.1:1 | 55% (278) |
| 2015-16 | 510 | 36 | 14.2:1 | 57% (293) |
| 2010-11 | 482 | 25 | 19.3:1 | 70% (337) |
| 2000-01 | 439 | 21 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 20 | 25.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Hills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (502 to 498); teachers down 1% (33.3 to 33.1).
About Lake Hills Elementary
Lake Hills Elementary is an elementary school in Bellevue, Washington, and it is part of Bellevue School District. It has an enrollment of 498 students in pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 31% bigger than that mark.
Bellevue School District is responsible for 30 schools, Lake Hills Elementary included, with 20,339 students in all.
No group is above 50% at Lake Hills Elementary; the largest is Hispanic, at 40%. The rest of enrollment is 18% White, 17% Black, 15% Asian, and 11% multiracial. Among all residents of King County, the Hispanic share is about 11%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 75%.
Lake Hills Elementary has 33.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.0:1. Elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1, 2.3 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 66% at Lake Hills Elementary. On average, public schools in King County report 38%.
Lake Hills Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 29% of Washington public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 35.7% for Lake Hills Elementary. The school posts 36.9%, 1.2 points above the prediction.
In the surrounding county, King County, 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.
Sammamish Senior High is about 0.5 miles from Lake Hills Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Lake Hills Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Lake Hills Elementary comes in 6th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Lake Hills Elementary is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count rose 8% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 12.8:1 to 15.0:1.
On allk12, people connected to Lake Hills Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Bellevue School District
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other schools in Bellevue
- Newport Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
Other Lake Hills Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Lake Hills Elementary. Lake Hills Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Lake Hills ElementaryRiverside, CA · 638 students
- Lake Hills Elementary SchoolMichigan City, IN · 345 students
- Lake Hills Elementary SchoolSPRING LAKE, MI · 273 students
Nearby schools
- Sammamish Senior High0.5 mi · 1,363
- Bellevue Big Picture School0.7 mi · 346
- Puesta del Sol Elementary School0.9 mi · 494
- Odle Middle School0.9 mi · 974
- International School1.0 mi · 600
- Phantom Lake Elementary1.1 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Hills ElementaryHow large is Lake Hills Elementary?
Lake Hills Elementary enrolls approximately 498 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lake Hills Elementary serve?
Lake Hills Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Lake Hills Elementary?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Lake Hills Elementary.
How diverse is Lake Hills Elementary?
Lake Hills Elementary reports a student body of 18% White, 40% Hispanic, 17% Black, 15% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Lake Hills Elementary public or private?
Lake Hills Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bellevue School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.