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If you had an hour of school board time for Oak Heights Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
526
Elementary
DISTRICT 462 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530240000357
Oak Heights Elementary
20000 28th Ave W, LYNNWOOD, WA 98036 · (425) 431-7744 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL526 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
14.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
254 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 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 94 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 20% smaller than its 6th grade class (94).
Student demographics
75%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
46.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -7.4pp since 2014
Math
44.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -3.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.7% | 44.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.5% | 41.4% |
| 2022-23 | 44.2% | 34.8% |
| 2021-22 | 44.2% | 36.5% |
| 2018-19 | 54.8% | 45.7% |
| 2017-18 | 48.5% | 42.2% |
| 2016-17 | 50.4% | 39.6% |
| 2015-16 | 56.1% | 45.6% |
| 2014-15 | 54.1% | 47.2% |
% 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
42.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Oak Heights Elementary
Oak Heights Elementary's state test result (42.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Heights Elementary this school | 526 | 48.3% | 42.1% |
| Martha Lake Elementary LYNNWOOD | 545 | 50.8% | 38.9% |
| Covington Elementary School Covington | 456 | 52.0% | 46.7% |
| Lynnwood Elementary LYNNWOOD | 578 | 50.5% | 41.3% |
| Hazelwood Elementary School AUBURN | 502 | 52.2% | 47.8% |
| Meadowdale Elementary LYNNWOOD | 430 | 48.8% | 48.3% |
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 Oak Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #581 of 936 | #73 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.2% | #557 of 1,103 ▲ 49 | #68 of 106 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #579 of 1,102 ▲ 162 | #70 of 106 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.1pp | #252 of 928 | #29 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 526 | #225 of 1,268 | #42 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #320 of 1,085 | #34 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.7% | #151 of 1,088 | #9 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.3% | #675 of 1,169 | #51 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #403 of 778 | #18 of 68 |
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
526
-65 (-11%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 526 | 35.2 | 14.9:1 | 48% (254) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 36.1 | 15.0:1 | 48% (261) |
| 2022-23 | 567 | 37.8 | 15.0:1 | 45% (257) |
| 2020-21 | 591 | 36 | 16.4:1 | 34% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 33.6 | 18.6:1 | 37% (230) |
| 2015-16 | 595 | 30 | 19.8:1 | 41% (245) |
| 2010-11 | 559 | 24 | 23.3:1 | 27% (151) |
| 2000-01 | 533 | 25 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 546 | 23 | 23.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (626 to 526); teachers up 5% (33.6 to 35.2).
About Oak Heights Elementary
Oak Heights Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in LYNNWOOD, Washington. The school serves 526 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students.
Edmonds School District serves 20,955 students across 37 schools.
Oak Heights Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 35%. After that, the student body is 28% Hispanic, 21% Asian, 10% Black, and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Snohomish County, the White share is about 64%. By the diversity index, Oak Heights Elementary comes in at 75%.
Its teaching staff equals 35.2 full-time positions, a ratio of 14.9:1. That ratio is under the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Around 48% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
The allk12 Grade for Oak Heights Elementary is C. Compared with Washington public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 27% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with Oak Heights Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Washington is predicted to score 47.8%. Oak Heights Elementary scores 42.1%, 5.7 points below that line.
Federal survey data for Snohomish County show that median household income is about $111,246, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Oak Heights Elementary is among the 227 public schools in Snohomish County.
The next-closest public school is Hazelwood Elementary, about 0.3 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Oak Heights Elementary. On proficiency, Oak Heights Elementary is behind the 43.4% nearby average, ranking 4th of 8.
For locale, NCES codes Oak Heights Elementary as Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Oak Heights Elementary went from 591 students to 526. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2020-21 to 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Oak Heights Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Lynnwood ElementaryElementary · 578 students
Other Oak Heights Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Oak Heights Elementary. Oak Heights Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Oak Heights Elementary SchoolSweet Home, OR · 303 students
Nearby schools
- Hazelwood Elementary0.3 mi · 419
- Early Childhood Center0.5 mi · 397
- Mountlake Terrace High School1.2 mi · 1,456
- Brier Terrace Middle School1.3 mi · 649
- Lynnwood Elementary1.4 mi · 578
- Hilltop Elementary1.4 mi · 562
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Heights ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Oak Heights Elementary?
Oak Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 526 students in grades KG-06.
Is Oak Heights Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oak Heights Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Oak Heights Elementary have?
Oak Heights Elementary employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oak Heights Elementary?
At Oak Heights Elementary, the student body is approximately 35% White, 28% Hispanic, 10% Black, 21% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Oak Heights Elementary?
Oak Heights 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.