Olympic View Elementary

Olympic View Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Lacey, Washington, overseen by North Thurston Public Schools. The school works with 552 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 45% above the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

North Thurston Public Schools runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 15,167 students. Olympic View Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Olympic View Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 25% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 10% Asian, 5% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Olympic View Elementary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olympic View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Thurston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $96,563 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Olympic View Elementary is one of 86 public schools in Thurston County (combined enrollment of about 44,412 students).

Lydia Hawk Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olympic View Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Olympic View Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 40.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Olympic View Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 552). White enrollment moved from 49% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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