Summary
Park Lodge Elementary School in Lakewood, Washington, serves 363 students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in a relatively concentrated area of nearby elementary schools, most of which are part of the Clover Park School District.
Parents should know that Park Lodge’s academic results are currently well below district and state averages. In 2025–2026, 25.82% of students were proficient in English language arts, 20.11% in math, and 25.42% in science. Third-grade ELA was especially low at 14.04%, while fifth-grade math was 13.33%. Park Lodge ranked 1,040th of 1,138 Washington schools, in the 9th percentile. This is better than its 4th-percentile result the previous year, but the school remains among the lowest-ranked schools statewide and locally. Its results were below all nearby Clover Park schools in all-grade ELA, math, and science. For example, nearby Idlewild Elementary School reported 50.75% ELA, 41.50% math, and 67.16% science proficiency.
The school serves a relatively high-need community: 78.51% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. However, Park Lodge also reported the lowest student-teacher ratio among the comparison schools, at 12.8-to-1, and relatively high spending of $22,719 per student. That suggests the key question is how staffing and funding are being used for instruction and intervention. Science improved from 20.97% to 25.42%, and math rose modestly, but ELA declined. Nearby schools such as Four Heroes Elementary and Tyee Park Elementary School serve similarly high-need populations while posting stronger results in several subjects. Important improvement priorities include early literacy, math—especially in fifth grade—science recovery, attendance, intervention systems, and consistent instruction.
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