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Enrollment
578
Elementary
DISTRICT 462 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530240000344
Lynnwood Elementary
18638 44th Ave W, LYNNWOOD, WA 98037 · (425) 431-7615 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL578 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% of Washington public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
292 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 83 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (83).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
44.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -14.7pp since 2014
Math
37.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 15 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.4% | 37.3% |
| 2023-24 | 41.9% | 33.4% |
| 2022-23 | 46.7% | 37.9% |
| 2021-22 | 39.0% | 30.0% |
| 2018-19 | 64.8% | 55.6% |
| 2017-18 | 64.1% | 55.9% |
| 2016-17 | 61.9% | 53.8% |
| 2015-16 | 60.6% | 50.0% |
| 2014-15 | 59.0% | 49.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 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 Lynnwood Elementary
Lynnwood Elementary's state test result (41.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynnwood Elementary this school | 578 | 50.5% | 41.3% |
| Oak Heights Elementary LYNNWOOD | 526 | 48.3% | 42.1% |
| Martha Lake Elementary LYNNWOOD | 545 | 50.8% | 38.9% |
| Covington Elementary School Covington | 456 | 52.0% | 46.7% |
| Meadowdale Elementary LYNNWOOD | 430 | 48.8% | 48.3% |
| Hazelwood Elementary School AUBURN | 502 | 52.2% | 47.8% |
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 Lynnwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #604 of 936 | #76 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #721 of 1,103 ▲ 71 | #77 of 106 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #640 of 1,102 ▲ 35 | #76 of 106 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.3pp | #202 of 928 | #18 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 578 | #135 of 1,268 | #28 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #687 of 1,085 | #66 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.5% | #101 of 1,088 | #4 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.5% | #626 of 1,169 | #44 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.5% | #122 of 257 | #17 of 37 |
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
578
+26 (+5%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 467
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 578 | 35.2 | 16.4:1 | 51% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 591 | 37.2 | 15.9:1 | 55% (323) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 35.6 | 15.7:1 | 53% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 552 | 32 | 17.3:1 | 36% (198) |
| 2017-18 | 523 | 35.9 | 14.6:1 | 45% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 605 | 32 | 18.9:1 | 53% (321) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | 25 | 20.4:1 | 29% (149) |
| 2000-01 | 540 | 25 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 467 | 23 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lynnwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (523 to 578); teachers down 2% (35.9 to 35.2).
About Lynnwood Elementary
Lynnwood Elementary is a large elementary school located in LYNNWOOD, Washington. There are 578 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 6. The school is 52% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Washington.
Edmonds School District runs 37 schools with a combined 20,955 students. Lynnwood Elementary is one of them.
The student body at Lynnwood Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 33%. The next largest groups are 25% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 13% Black, and 8% multiracial. The school's White share is 31 points below the 64% share among Snohomish County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 77%.
Lynnwood Elementary has 35.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 16.4:1. The school's 16.4:1 compares with an average of 17.3:1 for elementary schools in Washington. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 51%. That is 10 points above the 41% average for public schools in Snohomish County.
Lynnwood Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 27% of Washington public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 46.3% for Lynnwood Elementary. The school posts 41.3%, 5.0 points below the prediction.
Census data for Snohomish County show the median household earns about $111,246 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Snohomish County number 227, with about 118,688 students.
The closest school to Lynnwood Elementary is Cedar Valley Elementary, located about 0.8 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lynnwood Elementary. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Lynnwood Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 5% rise took enrollment from 552 in 2020-21 to 578 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edmonds School District
- Edmonds Woodway High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Mountlake Terrace High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Lynnwood High SchoolHigh · 1,335 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
Other schools in LYNNWOOD
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Spruce ElementaryElementary · 632 students
- Lake Stickney Elementary SchoolElementary · 628 students
- Hilltop ElementaryElementary · 562 students
Other Lynnwood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Lynnwood Elementary. Lynnwood Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- LYNNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSCHENECTADY, NY · 405 students
Nearby schools
- Cedar Valley Elementary0.8 mi · 427
- Spruce Elementary0.8 mi · 632
- Beverly Elementary1.3 mi · 413
- Oak Heights Elementary1.4 mi · 526
- Meadowdale High School1.4 mi · 1,491
- Hazelwood Elementary1.4 mi · 419
Frequently asked questions
About Lynnwood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Lynnwood Elementary?
Lynnwood Elementary enrolls approximately 578 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Lynnwood Elementary serve?
Lynnwood Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Lynnwood Elementary have?
Lynnwood Elementary employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
How diverse is Lynnwood Elementary?
Lynnwood Elementary reports a student body of 33% White, 25% Hispanic, 13% Black, 19% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Lynnwood Elementary?
Lynnwood Elementary is overseen by Edmonds School District in Snohomish County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.