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Park Lodge Elementary School

Public Grades PK, KG-5
1040th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 1,138 Washington Elementary Schools
Better than 9% of Washington elementary schools
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.

363
Students ?
12.8
Student/teacher ratio ?
$22,719
Per pupil spending ?
78.5%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 6300 100th ST SW
       Lakewood, WA  98499-1766

(253) 583-5350

District: Clover Park School District


Students who attend Park Lodge Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Hudtloff Middle School
High:    Clover Park High School
    General William H. Harrison Preparatory School
Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
50.4%
African American:
17.1%
White:
9.9%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Rebounding — 2nd percentile in 2023 → 9th in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is rebounding — up to 9th (2026) from a 2nd-percentile low (2023)
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Washington average (23% vs 48% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (9th percentile)
!English Language Arts scores 27 pts below the Washington average
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school23%
District avg35%
Washington avg48%
1,040th of 1,138
Washington public elementary schools ?
Bottom 9%▼ down 7 pts since 2016
From bottom 16% (2016) to bottom 9% (2026)
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SchoolDigger rating ?
16th of 16Elementary Schools in the Clover Park School District
162nd of 238Clover Park School District among Washington districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
20269.81040 of 11388.6%☆☆☆☆☆
20258.31110 of 11604.3%☆☆☆☆☆
202412.61076 of 11687.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20235.91143 of 11692.2%☆☆☆☆☆
202210.01100 of 11695.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20218.21067 of 11073.6%☆☆☆☆☆
20199.01068 of 11305.5%☆☆☆☆☆
201814.7942 of 105410.6%★☆☆☆☆
201713.2957 of 10569.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201619.7884 of 105316.0%★☆☆☆☆
201524.3858 of 106719.6%★☆☆☆☆
201344.7664 of 110640.0%★★☆☆☆
201224.9906 of 109717.4%★☆☆☆☆
201126.7886 of 109218.9%★☆☆☆☆
201012.61016 of 10886.6%☆☆☆☆☆
200937.9730 of 107231.9%★★☆☆☆
200840.8668 of 106737.4%★★☆☆☆
200734.4755 of 106929.4%★☆☆☆☆
200628.8816 of 105122.4%★☆☆☆☆
200538.8679 of 103134.1%★★☆☆☆
200456.7444 of 102656.7%★★★☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
202258.437 of 10865.7%★★★☆☆
201925.696 of 11012.7%★☆☆☆☆
201856.832 of 10770.1%★★★★☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
202523.1240 of 30320.8%★☆☆☆☆
201833.5248 of 33325.5%★☆☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
202612.0952 of 10206.7%☆☆☆☆☆
202514.0992 of 10929.2%☆☆☆☆☆
202416.0960 of 109312.2%★☆☆☆☆
20236.91068 of 10942.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202210.81039 of 11005.5%☆☆☆☆☆
20219.2974 of 10083.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20199.11021 of 10684.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201814.9893 of 100411.1%★☆☆☆☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
202625.7528 of 64918.6%★☆☆☆☆
202514.3614 of 6596.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202423.5538 of 65117.4%★☆☆☆☆
202316.4585 of 6337.6%☆☆☆☆☆
202224.1581 of 69416.3%★☆☆☆☆
202123.9415 of 50117.2%★☆☆☆☆
201919.3618 of 69711.3%★☆☆☆☆
201826.7433 of 54019.8%★☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
202619.7890 of 100811.7%★☆☆☆☆
202517.5905 of 101310.7%★☆☆☆☆
202426.2820 of 102419.9%★☆☆☆☆
202311.3973 of 10133.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202222.0883 of 101913.3%★☆☆☆☆
202115.4804 of 8545.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201923.1837 of 97914.5%★☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
202616.9935 of 105911.7%★☆☆☆☆
20255.51080 of 10981.6%☆☆☆☆☆
202411.71014 of 10997.7%☆☆☆☆☆
20235.31085 of 10991.3%☆☆☆☆☆
20229.41062 of 11134.6%☆☆☆☆☆
201911.11004 of 10756.6%☆☆☆☆☆
201816.2886 of 99911.3%★☆☆☆☆

Multi-racial

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
201812.8190 of 21210.4%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
201811.3633 of 6370.6%☆☆☆☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWashington percentileRating
20195.91007 of 10271.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20188.0801 of 8333.8%☆☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
African American (2022)66th percentile+60 vs school
English Language Learner (2025)21st percentile+16 vs school
Hispanic (2026)19th percentile+10 vs school
Male (2026)12th percentile+3 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)12th percentile+3 vs school
Multi-racial (2018)10th percentile~ school
Female (2026)7th percentile~ school
White (2019)2nd percentile-4 vs school
Special Education (2018)1st percentile-10 vs school
By subject vs Washington (2025-2026) ?
English Language Arts26%-27 vs state
Science25%-26 vs state
Math20%-23 vs state

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What people are saying
by a parent
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Open Quote The school receives extra funding. The teachers work extra hard. All students get free meals. None of that seems to help. The pivot during COVID has been excruciating with a seemingly thrown-together disorganized way to approaching remote learning. Each teacher has different tools, methods of communication, expectations, ZERO standardization, very little consistency. Almost no communication of progress or need for correction except during conferences 3 x annually. Lots of attention to underperformers, disengaged parents. The school hosts really fun events (even virtually during COVID) and provides supplies for family/school engagement activities but a painfully low number of families participate. This is a sadly bad school, not for lack of effort, but for lack of effective strategies. The COVID learning resource package has been awful and difficult to support as an actively engaged parent let alone for a disengaged, low participation parent. The framework has built-in the need to rely on teachers which holds successful students/family back for the sake of "Equity". Close Quote


by a parent
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Open Quote Considering the population demographics and the lack of willing volunteers, the staff and educators at Park Lodge have worked very hard to make Park Lodge a great school. If there are problems, it is the lack of parent involvement that brings this school down. Close Quote





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Frequently Asked Questions about Park Lodge Elementary School

Park Lodge Elementary School ranks in the bottom 8.6% of Washington elementary schools.

In the 2024-25 school year, 363 students attended Park Lodge Elementary School.

Students at Park Lodge Elementary School are 50% Hispanic, 17% African American, 10% White, 9% Two or more races, 8% Not Specified, 3% Pacific Islander, 2% Asian.

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2025–26 SBAC & WCAS test scoresSep 10, 2026
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2022–23 through 2023–24 school spending dataJan 6, 2026
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Washington State Department of Health and the Washington Office of Superindentent of Public Instruction.

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