Park Lodge Elementary School

Park Lodge Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Lakewood, Washington, run under Clover Park School District, with 363 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Clover Park School District comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 12,345 students; Park Lodge Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Park Lodge Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 17% Black, 10% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pierce County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Park Lodge Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Pierce County shows the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Park Lodge Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Special Education Services/relife, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Park Lodge Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.

Park Lodge Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Park Lodge Elementary School's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 363). White enrollment moved from 17% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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