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Enrollment
461
Elementary
DISTRICT 216 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NINE MILE FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530564000836
Lake Spokane Elementary
6015 Hwy 291, Nine Mile Falls, WA 99026 · (509) 340-4040 · Stevens County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL461 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Washington public elementary schools
- B+Test 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.
- AThree-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
15.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.9:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
159 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 21 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lake Spokane Elementary→Lakeside Middle School
Based on grade levels within Nine Mile Falls School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
61.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.1pp since 2014
Math
58.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.6% | 58.4% |
| 2023-24 | 56.6% | 55.7% |
| 2022-23 | 45.8% | 48.8% |
| 2021-22 | 52.4% | 52.4% |
| 2018-19 | 51.3% | 46.6% |
| 2017-18 | 51.7% | 55.9% |
| 2016-17 | 60.3% | 61.2% |
| 2015-16 | 65.3% | 63.5% |
| 2014-15 | 65.8% | 60.4% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Spokane Elementary
Lake Spokane Elementary's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Spokane Elementary this school | 461 | 34.5% | 57.0% |
| Liberty Jr High & Elementary SPANGLE | 437 | 36.8% | 53.7% |
| Moran Prairie Elementary Spokane | 462 | 36.1% | 67.9% |
| Kalama Elem School Kalama | 525 | 37.7% | N/A |
| Colbert Elementary School COLBERT | 364 | 36.8% | 65.8% |
| Spokane Public Montessori Spokane | 413 | 29.3% | 44.1% |
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 Spokane Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Stevens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #307 of 936 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.4% | #283 of 1,103 ▲ 45 | #1 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #267 of 1,102 ▲ 94 | #1 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.6pp | #150 of 928 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 461 | #408 of 1,268 | #1 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #415 of 1,085 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.1% | #1,048 of 1,088 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.5% | #873 of 1,169 | #12 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.3% | #733 of 778 | N/A |
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
461
+50 (+12%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 461 | 30.1 | 15.3:1 | 34% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 455 | 32.6 | 14.0:1 | 42% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 33.3 | 14.1:1 | 42% (196) |
| 2020-21 | 411 | 28 | 14.7:1 | 30% (123) |
| 2017-18 | 472 | 28.2 | 16.8:1 | 34% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 25 | 16.9:1 | 37% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 460 | 24 | 19.2:1 | 35% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 482 | 23 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 16 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Spokane Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (472 to 461); teachers up 7% (28.2 to 30.1).
About Lake Spokane Elementary
Lake Spokane Elementary is an elementary school in Nine Mile Falls, Washington, reachable at (509) 340-4040. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 461 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 21% higher.
Federal data list 6 schools in Nine Mile Falls School District, with 1,440 students enrolled.
Of every 100 students at Lake Spokane Elementary, about 89 are White. After that, the student body is 5% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. The diversity index for Lake Spokane Elementary is 20%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 15.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Lake Spokane Elementary, which has 30.1. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 34%. The rate at public schools in Stevens County averages 55%, higher than here.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Lake Spokane Elementary outscored 63%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Lake Spokane Elementary is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Washington schools.
In Stevens County, median household income comes to about $69,327, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county's public schools total 41, with about 7,726 students.
Among nearby public schools, Lakeside Middle School is closest at about 1.1 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 5. Nearby schools with test data average 58.2% proficiency; Lake Spokane Elementary posts 57.0%.
NCES describes the area around Lake Spokane Elementary as Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school's student count increased 12% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
People can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Stevens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
48,067
Census ACS
Median income
$69,327
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
7,726 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Nine Mile Falls School District
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 494 students
- Lakeside Middle SchoolMiddle · 293 students
- Nine Mile Falls ElementaryElementary · 136 students
- Nine Mile Family Partnership ProgramElementary · 51 students
- Re-Engagement School (Nine Mile Falls)High · 5 students
Other schools in Nine Mile Falls
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 494 students
- Lakeside Middle SchoolMiddle · 293 students
- Nine Mile Falls ElementaryElementary · 136 students
- Nine Mile Family Partnership ProgramElementary · 51 students
- Re-Engagement School (Nine Mile Falls)High · 5 students
Nearby schools
- Lakeside Middle School1.1 mi · 293
- Re-Engagement School (Nine Mile Falls)1.3 mi · 5
- Lakeside High School1.3 mi · 494
- Nine Mile Falls Elementary3.0 mi · 136
- Nine Mile Family Partnership Program3.0 mi · 51
- Woodridge Elementary6.8 mi · 369
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Spokane ElementaryHow large is Lake Spokane Elementary?
Lake Spokane Elementary enrolls approximately 461 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lake Spokane Elementary serve?
Lake Spokane Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lake Spokane Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lake Spokane Elementary is approximately 15.3:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lake Spokane Elementary?
Student demographics at Lake Spokane Elementary are roughly 89% White, 5% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Lake Spokane Elementary in?
Lake Spokane Elementary is part of Nine Mile Falls School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.