Leland P Brown Elementary

Leland P Brown Elementary is one of the medium-sized primary schools in OLYMPIA, Washington, operated by Olympia School District, with 328 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Olympia School District comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 9,386 students; Leland P Brown Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Leland P Brown Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Thurston County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Thurston County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Leland P Brown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 45.4%, a residual of +5.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Thurston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $96,563 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Leland P Brown Elementary is one of 86 public schools in Thurston County (combined enrollment of about 44,412 students).

Thurgood Marshall Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leland P Brown Elementary. On composite proficiency, Leland P Brown Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Leland P Brown Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 377 (now 328). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 69% to 55%.

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