# Cougar Creek Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530426003156`
- **School name**: Cougar Creek Elementary School
- **Location**: Arlington, WA 98223
- **Address**: 16216 11th Ave N.E.
- **District**: Lakewood School District (LEAID `5304260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 48.14270, -122.21710
- **Phone**: (360)652-4517

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 422
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 2: Targeted 3+
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 3
  - proficiency_math_decile: 6
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 4.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 2
  - growth_math_decile: 2
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 2
  - el_progress_decile: 8
  - regularattendance_decile: 2
  - sqss_combined_decile: 2
  - _2025_score: 3.3
  - overall: Tier 2: Targeted 3+

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.9% (91 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.8%
- **Black/African American**: 4.3%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 63.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 13.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.8% — 58 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,803
- **Federal share**: $992
- **State + local share**: $18,811
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 435
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,975,038
- **Federal share**: 7.3%
- **State share**: 71.1%
- **Local share**: 21.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,530,635

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,090
- **Poverty rate**: 8.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,314
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.8 miles (NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND AULT FIELD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.90 miles (ALPACA FARM)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ARLINGTON CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.92235 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lakewood High School** — 0.5 mi away, 24.27% (this school: 24.93%)
- **Lakewood Middle School** — 0.6 mi away, 13.14% (this school: 24.93%)
- **ECEAP** — 3.0 mi away, 11.02% (this school: 24.93%)
- **Marysville Coop Program** — 3.5 mi away, 14.21% (this school: 24.93%)
- **Pioneer Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 16.53% (this school: 24.93%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cougar-creek-elementary-school-arlington/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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