Lakeland Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in AUBURN, Washington, Lakeland Elementary School serves 418 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Federal Way School District.

Federal Way School District runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 22,250 students. Lakeland Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lakeland Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 13% Asian, 8% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at Lakeland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above King County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lakeland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -3.2 points.

Around the school, King County reports that median household income runs about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Lakeland Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sequoyah Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lakeland Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 48% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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