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Enrollment
512
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030003063
Lakeland Hills Elementary
1020 Evergreen Way SE, AUBURN, WA 98092 · (253) 876-7711 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL512 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Washington public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
15.8:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
183 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 | 13 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
77%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
60.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -15.7pp since 2014
Math
64.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 13 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.2% | 64.1% |
| 2023-24 | 64.8% | 64.4% |
| 2022-23 | 66.7% | 60.7% |
| 2021-22 | 70.5% | 60.9% |
| 2018-19 | 81.2% | 77.5% |
| 2017-18 | 80.3% | 79.8% |
| 2016-17 | 77.0% | 82.0% |
| 2015-16 | 77.8% | 81.7% |
| 2014-15 | 75.9% | 77.3% |
% 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
62.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Lakeland Hills Elementary
Lakeland Hills Elementary's state test result (62.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Hills Elementary this school | 512 | 35.7% | 62.9% |
| Bowman Creek Elementary Auburn | 440 | 35.0% | 55.6% |
| Kennydale Elementary School Renton | 511 | 39.3% | 55.4% |
| Briarcrest Elementary Shoreline | 454 | 35.9% | 64.7% |
| Columbia Elementary Mukilteo | 596 | 33.2% | 58.5% |
| Meridian Elementary School Kent | 390 | 40.5% | 56.1% |
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 Lakeland Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #214 of 936 | #28 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #206 of 1,103 ▼ 16 | #22 of 142 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #299 of 1,102 ▼ 71 | #38 of 142 ▼ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #193 of 928 | #35 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 512 | #258 of 1,268 | #46 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #534 of 1,085 | #57 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.0% | #92 of 1,088 | #38 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.7% | #857 of 1,169 | #120 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.1% | #112 of 778 | #6 of 91 |
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
512
-35 (-6%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 620
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 512 | 32.4 | 15.8:1 | 36% (183) |
| 2023-24 | 542 | 33.5 | 16.2:1 | 35% (187) |
| 2022-23 | 536 | 35.3 | 15.2:1 | 35% (186) |
| 2020-21 | 547 | 36 | 15.2:1 | 29% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 732 | 38.7 | 18.9:1 | 21% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 678 | 36 | 18.8:1 | 23% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 620 | 31 | 20.0:1 | 18% (112) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lakeland Hills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (732 to 512); teachers down 16% (38.7 to 32.4).
About Lakeland Hills Elementary
Lakeland Hills Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in AUBURN, Washington. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 512 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 35% above that mark.
Lakeland Hills Elementary is part of Auburn School District, where 26 schools serve 18,174 students.
The largest group at Lakeland Hills Elementary is White students, at 31%. It is also 27% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 12% multiracial, and 9% Black. For comparison, the population of Pierce County is roughly 64% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lakeland Hills Elementary scores 77%.
Lakeland Hills Elementary reported 32.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.8:1. Elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1, 1.5 more students per teacher than here. There are 183 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 36% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Pierce County averages 50%, higher than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Lakeland Hills Elementary lands at B+, ahead of 73% of Washington public elementary schools.
Lakeland Hills Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.9% is 6.7 points above the 56.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Pierce County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $99,564, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 287 public schools and about 138,462 students.
Measured in a straight line, Ilalko Elementary School is about 0.9 miles from Lakeland Hills Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 62.9% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 9 nearby schools.
Lakeland Hills Elementary is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 512, down from 547 in 2020-21.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 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
- Ilalko Elementary School0.9 mi · 468
- Auburn Riverside High School1.0 mi · 1,852
- Bowman Creek Elementary1.2 mi · 440
- Lake Tapps Elementary1.2 mi · 460
- Mt Baker Middle School1.4 mi · 917
- Gildo Rey Elementary School1.7 mi · 416
Frequently asked questions
About Lakeland Hills ElementaryHow large is Lakeland Hills Elementary?
Lakeland Hills Elementary enrolls approximately 512 students in grades PK-05.
Is Lakeland Hills Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lakeland Hills Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Lakeland Hills Elementary?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Lakeland Hills Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lakeland Hills Elementary?
At Lakeland Hills Elementary, the student body is approximately 31% White, 27% Hispanic, 9% Black, 19% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Lakeland Hills Elementary public or private?
Lakeland Hills Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Auburn School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.