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Winlock Miller Elementary
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Winlock Miller Elementary
Winlock Miller Elementary, a medium-sized primary school in WINLOCK, Washington, one of the schools within Winlock School District, teaches 415 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Winlock School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 801 students; Winlock Miller Elementary is among them.
In terms of who attends, Winlock Miller Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 75%. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Winlock Miller Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, Winlock Miller Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.4%; this one delivers 33.5%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lewis County) logs that median household income runs about $74,796, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Lewis County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,548 students), of which Winlock Miller Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Winlock Senior High, around 2.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Winlock Miller Elementary. On composite proficiency, Winlock Miller Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Looking at the recent track record. Winlock Miller Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 21% since 2018, when it stood at 343 (now 415). The White share of enrollment ticked up from 69% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.
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