23 public K-12 schools in Lakewood from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lakewood has more public-school enrollment than 79% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lakewood sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
14 of Lakewood's 23 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 24-point gap between Oak Grove and Clover Park Early Learning Program shows the range hidden by Lakewood's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Lakewood school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 1,161 students (highest), a spread of 1,158 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Lakewood'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
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 Variation between sub-units within Lakewood is typically wider than the Lakewood-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Oak Grove | 54 |
| 2. | Oakbrook Elementary School | 50 |
| 3. | Tillicum Elementary School | 50 |
| 4. | Idlewild Elementary School | 49 |
| 5. | General William H. Harrison Preparatory School | 47 |
| 6. | Park Lodge Elementary School | 47 |
| 7. | Dower Elementary School | 47 |
| 8. | Lake Louise Elementary School | 44 |
| 9. | Tyee Park Elementary School | 43 |
| 10. | Cpsd Open Doors Program | 43 |
| 11. | Hudtloff Middle School | 42 |
| 12. | Lochburn Middle School | 42 |
| 13. | Thomas Middle School | 40 |
| 14. | Clover Park High School | 39 |
| 15. | Four Heroes Elementary | 39 |
| 16. | Lakeview Hope Academy | 39 |
| 17. | Custer Elementary School | 39 |
| 18. | Lakes High School | 37 |
| 19. | Clover Park Early Learning Program | 30 |
| 20. | Alfaretta House | 30 |
| 21. | Transition Day Students | 30 |
| 22. | Special Education Services/Relife | 30 |
| 23. | Oakridge Group Home | 30 |
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.
Oak Grove has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lakewood schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Lakewood has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,491 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.2:1.
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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.
