Martha Lake Elementary

Martha Lake Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in LYNNWOOD, Washington, overseen by Edmonds School District, with 545 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 43% larger than typical.

Edmonds School District comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 20,955 students; Martha Lake Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Martha Lake Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 28% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 10% multiracial, 9% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at school resources, Martha Lake Elementary lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Martha Lake Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Snohomish County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Martha Lake Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.1%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Snohomish County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Martha Lake Elementary is one of 227 public schools in Snohomish County (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students).

Nearest neighbor: Alderwood Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martha Lake Elementary. On composite proficiency, Martha Lake Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

Martha Lake Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Martha Lake Elementary has grew 17%, going from 467 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 23% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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