An equity score of 24/100 ranks Loon Lake School District #217 of 239 districts in Washington (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,131 per pupil, Loon Lake School District ranks #291 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
221
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$15,131
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Loon Lake School District operates 2 public schools serving 221 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Stevens County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,131 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 32 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.5% local, 57.2% state, and 24.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 24/100, ranked #217 of 239 in Washington against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 364.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 74.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.2% White, 11.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Loon Lake Homelink Program, enrolling 138 students (55% of the district's total enrollment).
Loon Lake Homelink Program accounts for 55.0% of all Loon Lake School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Loon Lake School District a distant remainder — means Loon Lake School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Loon Lake School District reports 53.5% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. 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.
Loon Lake School District student-counselor ratio is 365:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Loon Lake School District chronic absenteeism rate is 74.3% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.