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What do you wish you knew before starting at Maple Lawn Elementary?
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Enrollment
628
Elementary
DISTRICT 487 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMNER-BONNEY LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530861001444
Maple Lawn Elementary
230 Wood Ave, Sumner, WA 98390 · (253) 891-4400 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL628 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
231 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
76.0%
WA avg 58.4% . +17.5pp since 2014
Math
75.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +24.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 18 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 24 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 75.1% |
| 2023-24 | 73.1% | 69.6% |
| 2022-23 | 72.9% | 71.3% |
| 2021-22 | 68.9% | 68.0% |
| 2018-19 | 77.8% | 75.8% |
| 2017-18 | 70.0% | 64.6% |
| 2016-17 | 71.7% | 72.1% |
| 2015-16 | 60.1% | 58.6% |
| 2014-15 | 58.5% | 50.9% |
% 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
70.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% 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 15 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 Maple Lawn Elementary
Maple Lawn Elementary's state test result (70.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Lawn Elementary this school | 628 | 36.8% | 70.6% |
| East Olympia Elementary Olympia | 579 | 35.6% | 58.2% |
| Badger Mountain Elementary Richland | 605 | 37.4% | N/A |
| Orting Elementary School Orting | 567 | 39.0% | 39.6% |
| Mt. Pilchuck Elementary School Lake Stevens | 554 | 37.2% | 60.7% |
| Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary School Orting | 723 | 38.9% | 41.0% |
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 Maple Lawn Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #132 of 936 | #10 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #85 of 1,103 ▲ 49 | #4 of 142 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #87 of 1,102 ▲ 29 | #4 of 142 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.1pp | #172 of 928 | #32 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 628 | #78 of 1,268 | #12 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.4:1 | #1,074 of 1,085 | #143 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.1% | #616 of 1,088 | #115 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.8% | #848 of 1,169 | #119 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #749 of 778 | #86 of 91 |
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
628
+49 (+8%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 507
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
was 20.0:1
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 | 628 | 29.4 | 21.4:1 | 37% (231) |
| 2023-24 | 603 | 31.4 | 19.2:1 | 36% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 629 | 31.4 | 20.0:1 | 34% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 579 | 29 | 20.0:1 | 25% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 33.1 | 19.3:1 | 33% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 612 | 30 | 20.4:1 | 39% (241) |
| 2010-11 | 448 | 20 | 22.4:1 | 35% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 26 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 507 | 23 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maple Lawn Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (638 to 628); teachers down 11% (33.1 to 29.4).
About Maple Lawn Elementary
Maple Lawn Elementary is the name of a large elementary school in Sumner, Washington. It serves 628 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students.
Enrollment across the 15 schools in Sumner-Bonney Lake School District totals 10,743 students.
Maple Lawn Elementary's enrollment is 61% White. Next come 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. The White share in Pierce County as a whole is similar, at about 64%. By the diversity index, Maple Lawn Elementary comes in at 56%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 21.4:1, with 29.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 37%. The average for public schools in Pierce County is 50%.
Maple Lawn Elementary outperforms its prediction by 15.1 points. The model expects 55.5% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Washington; the school's rate is 70.6%.
Census Bureau estimates for Pierce County show that median household income is about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 287 public schools operate in Pierce County, serving about 138,462 students.
Of nearby public schools, Sumner Middle School is the closest, at about 0.1 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Maple Lawn Elementary ranks 1st on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 579 in 2020-21 and 628 in 2024-25, a rise of 49 students. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 20.0:1 to 21.4:1.
Community posts for Maple Lawn Elementary can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sumner-Bonney Lake School District
- Sumner High SchoolHigh · 1,857 students
- Bonney Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 937 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 763 students
- Sumner Middle SchoolMiddle · 674 students
- Donald Eismann ElementaryElementary · 648 students
Other schools in Sumner
- Sumner High SchoolHigh · 1,857 students
- Sumner Middle SchoolMiddle · 674 students
- Daffodil Valley ElementaryElementary · 524 students
- Liberty Ridge ElementaryElementary · 515 students
- Sumner Special ServicesElementary · 35 students
Other Maple Lawn Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Maple Lawn Elementary. Maple Lawn Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Maple Lawn Elementary SchoolDALLAS, TX · 511 students
Nearby schools
- Sumner Middle School0.1 mi · 674
- Sumner High School0.6 mi · 1,857
- Sumner Special Services0.8 mi · 35
- Daffodil Valley Elementary0.9 mi · 524
- Shaw Road Elementary1.5 mi · 615
- Lakeridge Middle School2.1 mi · 763
Frequently asked questions
About Maple Lawn ElementaryHow large is Maple Lawn Elementary?
Maple Lawn Elementary enrolls approximately 628 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Maple Lawn Elementary serve?
Maple Lawn Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Maple Lawn Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Maple Lawn Elementary is approximately 21.4:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Maple Lawn Elementary?
At Maple Lawn Elementary, the student body is approximately 61% White, 23% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Maple Lawn Elementary public or private?
Maple Lawn Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sumner-Bonney Lake School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.