Lucille Umbarger Elementary

Among the schools in BURLINGTON, Washington, is Lucille Umbarger Elementary, a large elementary school. It offers kindergarten through 8 and has 619 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in Washington enroll about 380 students on average.

The Burlington-Edison School District system has 9 schools and 3,276 students.

More than half of enrollment at Lucille Umbarger Elementary is Hispanic: 57%. Other groups include 32% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 19% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lucille Umbarger Elementary scores 57%.

Lucille Umbarger Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1, with 41.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 67% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 56% for public schools in Skagit County.

On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Lucille Umbarger Elementary ranks in the bottom 10% in Washington. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 19.6%, against a prediction of 35.5%.

In Skagit County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $89,263 a year, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Skagit County number 54, with about 18,298 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, BECC, is about 0.5 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Lucille Umbarger Elementary is 4th among 4 schools close by.

In the federal locale system, Lucille Umbarger Elementary is coded Suburb: Small, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 576 to 619, a 7% gain.

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