Onalaska Elementary School

Onalaska Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in Onalaska, Washington, overseen by Onalaska School District, with 437 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Onalaska Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Onalaska School District, a district that caters to 913 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Onalaska Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Onalaska Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.2%.

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 roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Onalaska Elementary School is one of 45 public schools in Lewis County (combined enrollment of about 12,548 students).

The closest other public school is Onalaska High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Onalaska Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Onalaska Elementary School has edged up 11%, going from 392 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 14% to 10% over that span.

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