Loon Lake Elementary School

Set in Loon Lake, Washington, Loon Lake Elementary School is a micro-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within Loon Lake School District. It educates 113 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Loon Lake Elementary School sits 70% below that benchmark.

Loon Lake School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 251 students; Loon Lake Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Loon Lake Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest looks like 14% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Stevens County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Loon Lake Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.8%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Stevens County shows median household income runs about $69,327, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Loon Lake Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in Stevens County (combined enrollment of about 7,726 students).

Loon Lake Homelink Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Loon Lake Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Loon Lake Elementary School's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 119 (now 113). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 15% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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