Skyline Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Lake Stevens, Washington, Skyline Elementary enrolls 562 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Lake Stevens School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Skyline Elementary sits 48% above that benchmark.

Within Lake Stevens School District, which oversees 14 schools and 10,117 students, Skyline Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Skyline Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 35% of students at Skyline Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Skyline Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 61.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Snohomish County) logs that median household earnings sit near $111,246, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Skyline Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Lake Stevens Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Skyline Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Skyline Elementary's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 581 (now 562). Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 5% to 14%.

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