Lakeland Hills Elementary

Lakeland Hills Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in AUBURN, Washington, operated by Auburn School District. Current enrollment sits at 512 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 35% bigger than typical.

Auburn School District runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 18,174 students. Lakeland Hills Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lakeland Hills Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 27% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 12% multiracial, 9% Black. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Lakeland Hills Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakeland Hills Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.2%; this one delivers 62.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pierce County) records that median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lakeland Hills Elementary is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Ilalko Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakeland Hills Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 44.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lakeland Hills Elementary has contracted 30%, going from 732 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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