Soap Lake Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary campus in SOAP LAKE, Washington, Soap Lake Elementary instructs 328 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Soap Lake School District.

Soap Lake School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 591 students. Soap Lake Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Soap Lake Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 44% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Soap Lake Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Soap Lake Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 77% of students at Soap Lake Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Soap Lake Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.6%; Soap Lake Elementary posts 16.5%, -12.1 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Grant County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,267 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Grant County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students), Soap Lake Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Soap Lake Middle & High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Soap Lake Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Soap Lake Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 33.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 55%: 211 students in 2018 compared to 328 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.