Lakes High School

Lakes High School is a high school of high-enrollment scale in Lakewood, Washington, part of Clover Park School District, caters to 1,158 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 102% above typical.

Clover Park School District comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 12,345 students; Lakes High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lakes High School records that 30% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 23% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 14% Black, 6% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lakes High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.4%; this one delivers 36.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Lakes High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alfaretta House, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lakes High School. On composite proficiency, Lakes High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lakes High School has declined 15%, going from 1,369 students in 2018 to 1,158 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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