Enrollment
278
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530825001390
Lidgerwood Elementary
5510 N Lidgerwood, Spokane, WA 99208 · (509) 354-3225 · Spokane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL278 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
246 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 10 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
41.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.7pp since 2014
Math
32.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.2% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 29.1% | 25.0% |
| 2022-23 | 26.4% | 31.3% |
| 2021-22 | 23.4% | 19.0% |
| 2018-19 | 36.0% | 26.8% |
| 2017-18 | 37.4% | 25.6% |
| 2016-17 | 36.1% | 29.4% |
| 2015-16 | 39.8% | 33.2% |
| 2014-15 | 44.9% | 40.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 21% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 12 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Lidgerwood Elementary
Lidgerwood Elementary's state test result (33.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lidgerwood Elementary this school | 278 | 88.5% | 33.2% |
| Logan Elementary Spokane | 336 | 87.5% | 15.3% |
| Bemiss Elementary Spokane | 368 | 88.3% | 27.9% |
| Whitman Elementary Spokane | 362 | 86.2% | 39.5% |
| Regal Elementary Spokane | 381 | 84.3% | 25.9% |
| Holmes Elementary Spokane | 378 | 84.1% | 27.4% |
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 Lidgerwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #754 of 936 | #70 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #824 of 1,103 ▲ 137 | #67 of 83 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #713 of 1,102 ▲ 240 | #60 of 83 ▲ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +15.8pp | #19 of 928 | #4 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 278 | #1,013 of 1,268 | #78 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #15 of 1,085 | #3 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.0% | #463 of 1,088 | #11 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.5% | #40 of 1,169 | #1 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.2% | #80 of 778 | #5 of 67 |
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
278
-132 (-32%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 353
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 278 | 24 | 11.6:1 | 88% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 26.1 | 11.8:1 | 88% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 315 | 29.6 | 10.7:1 | 88% (278) |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 28 | 14.6:1 | 91% (372) |
| 2017-18 | 416 | 30.2 | 13.8:1 | 90% (373) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 25 | 15.4:1 | 88% (338) |
| 2010-11 | 372 | 22 | 16.9:1 | 79% (293) |
| 2000-01 | 316 | 16 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 353 | 14 | 25.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lidgerwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (416 to 278); teachers down 20% (30.2 to 24).
About Lidgerwood Elementary
Families in Spokane, Washington, are served by Lidgerwood Elementary, a small elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 278 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students, which makes this school 27% below average.
Lidgerwood Elementary is one school in Spokane School District, a system of 62 schools with 28,853 students.
About 56% of the student body at Lidgerwood Elementary is White. Enrollment also includes 20% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 4% Asian. Among people living in Spokane County, the White share is about 83%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.
Lidgerwood Elementary reported 24 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 11.6:1. Elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1, 5.7 more students per teacher than here. There are 246 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 88% of enrollment. That rate is above the 52% average among public schools in Spokane County.
Lidgerwood Elementary is 12.3 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Washington.
For Spokane County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $78,582, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 187 public schools and about 76,588 students.
Among nearby public schools, Garry Middle School is closest at about 0.3 miles. Lidgerwood Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 33.2% average proficiency ranks 6th among 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Lidgerwood Elementary the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 410 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 278 by 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 14.6:1 to 11.6:1.
This page is set up for the Lidgerwood Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Spokane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
549,056
Census ACS
Median income
$78,582
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
76,588 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spokane School District
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other schools in Spokane
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
Other Lidgerwood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Lidgerwood Elementary. Lidgerwood Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- LIDGERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLidgerwood, ND · 100 students
Nearby schools
- Garry Middle School0.3 mi · 410
- Madison Elementary0.5 mi · 250
- Whitman Elementary0.9 mi · 362
- Willard Elementary1.0 mi · 384
- Rogers High School1.1 mi · 1,498
- Longfellow Elementary1.2 mi · 417
Frequently asked questions
About Lidgerwood ElementaryHow many students attend Lidgerwood Elementary?
Lidgerwood Elementary enrolls approximately 278 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lidgerwood Elementary serve?
Lidgerwood Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lidgerwood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lidgerwood Elementary is approximately 11.6:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lidgerwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Lidgerwood Elementary are roughly 56% White, 11% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 20% Two or more.
What district is Lidgerwood Elementary in?
Lidgerwood Elementary is part of Spokane School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.