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Loon Lake, Washington - 2 schools
An equity score of 25/100 ranks Loon Lake School District #215 of 238 districts in Washington (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,475 per pupil, Loon Lake School District ranks #287 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
221
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$14,475
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 $14,475 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 31 of 309 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 25/100, ranked #215 of 238 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 dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Loon Lake School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 55.3% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
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.