NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Bonney Lake, WA

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9 public K-12 schools in Bonney Lake from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
6,510
Students
44.6/100
Avg Resource Index
18.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Resource breadth with tighter class loads

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bonney Lake has more public-school enrollment than 67% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bonney Lake's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Bonney Lake's 9 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Bonney Lake's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 68th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 22nd percentile. The 46-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 33%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
68th percentile
Teacher staffing
22nd percentile

Bonney Lake High School accounts for 25.2% of all Bonney Lake public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bonney Lake-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bonney Lake school enrollment varies 4.2× across entities

Bonney Lake school enrollment ranges from 393 students (lowest) to 1,643 students (highest), a spread of 1,250 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bonney Lake operates one school district — a single-district system

Bonney Lake's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bonney Lake student-teacher ratio is 18.7:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Bonney Lake Elementary 60
2. Crestwood Elementary 52
3. Bonney Lake High School 44
4. Donald Eismann Elementary 44
5. Tehaleh Heights Elementary School 41
6. Victor Falls Elementary 41
7. Lakeridge Middle School 40
8. Emerald Hills Elementary 40
9. Mountain View Middle School 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bonney Lake

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Tehaleh Heights Elementary School 64.1/100
  2. 2 Donald Eismann Elementary 61.3/100
  3. 3 Victor Falls Elementary 57.6/100
  4. 4 Mountain View Middle School 57.3/100
  5. 5 Bonney Lake High School 56.1/100

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Which Bonney Lake school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bonney Lake Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bonney Lake schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bonney Lake, WA? ▼

Bonney Lake has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,510 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.