Oakview Elementary School

Oakview Elementary School, a low-enrollment primary school in Centralia, Washington, part of Centralia School District, caters to 317 students, covering grades K through 6.

Across the 9 schools in Centralia School District (3,313 students total), Oakview Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Oakview Elementary School lists that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 40% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lewis County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Oakview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.1%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lewis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,796 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Oakview Elementary School is one of 45 public schools in Lewis County (combined enrollment of about 12,548 students).

Edison Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oakview Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.7%.

Oakview Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakview Elementary School has decreased 28%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 317 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 34% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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