Lakeview Hope Academy

Lakewood, WA · Grades ?–5

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Neighborhood

Decoded Rank

All factors combined

Middle 40% decoded

#294 of 675

plausibly #262–329

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA schools

Performing as Expected

#586 in WA

Achievement Rank

Raw test performance

Bottom 15% achievement

#592 of 675

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA schools

#1264 in WA

places from achievement to Decoded Rank

Scores look modest, but the school performs above what its context predicts.

Data confidence:High578 students tested 6 years99% participation

Confidence is computed from sample size, year coverage, and participation rate. Higher confidence means the rank shift is stable across years and not driven by a single small cohort.

  • Tested students: total students with valid scores across all reported years.
  • Years of data: number of school years included. More years smooths year-to-year noise.
  • Participation: share of enrolled students who took the assessment. Low participation can bias scores.

What's driving this rank

Decoded Rank: #294 of 675

in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA schools

Raw test scores rank this school #592, but after accounting for context, students here outperform what the data would predict. The Decoded Rank places it at #294.

Each component below is scored on a 0–100 within-metro scale. A qualitative band summarizes where the school lands.

  • Above averagePerforms above what its context predictsCounts for 35% of the rank

    After accounting for income and demographics, does this school beat what the data would predict?

  • Below averageStudents gain ground year over yearCounts for 30% of the rank

    Are kids at this school learning faster than typical for the metro?

  • About averageEquity within the schoolCounts for 15% of the rank

    Are students clustered at similar levels, or split between top and bottom?

  • Thin dataDirection over recent yearsCounts for 10% of the rank

    Is this school's Decoded Rank trending up or down across the years we have data for?

  • StrongMost students were testedCounts for 10% of the rank

    Was the rank computed against a representative share of the school's students?

Show the numbersFor the methodology-curious

Each component is converted to a 0–100 within-metro percentile (100 = top of the metro). "Contribution" is the percentile-points the component adds to (or subtracts from) the metro median before the schools are re-ranked into the composite.

Per-component contributions to this school's Decoded Rank composite. Weight is the share each component carries; percentile is the school's within-metro score on that component.
ComponentWeightPercentileContribution
Performs above what its context predicts 35%80+10.4
Students gain ground year over year 30%22-8.5
Equity within the school 15%43-1.1
Direction over recent years · thin data10%50+0.0
Most students were tested 10%99+4.9

How the Decoded Rank composite is computed

Why trust this?
  • Public data sources
  • Context-adjusted model
  • Confidence shown
  • Methodology published

This score uses state assessment data, NCES enrollment data, and Census ACS 5-year neighborhood data. The Decoded Rank adjusts for school context — student demographics, ELL/SPED service rates, and the socioeconomic profile of the surrounding tract — and shows how the school performs relative to expectation, not in absolute terms.

SchoolDecoder is one signal, not a verdict. Decoded Rank is a context-adjusted residual, not a causal claim about teaching quality. See full methodology →

All Rankings

How this school ranks across the metro, state, and among demographic peers.

ScopeAchievementDecodedShift
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (675 schools)#592#294
WA (1503 schools)#1264#586
Among similar schools (6 peers)#2#2

Resource context

School inputs, not ranking points

These fields describe the school and surrounding neighborhood. They help readers interpret the page, but this is not a dollar-by-dollar or ratio-by-ratio scorecard and the fields here are not components of the Decoded Rank.

Enrollment
534
Free/reduced-price lunch
83.9%
Student-teacher ratio
13.7:1
Locale
City, small
School type
Regular public school
Enrollment model
Neighborhood attendance area
Neighborhood median income
$57,005ACS tract proxy
Neighborhood poverty
0.2%ACS tract proxy
SES index
9.9
Assessment data year
2023
CCD year
2022
ACS vintage
2020-2024

Within Clover Park School District: #8 of 20.Top-40% in district. View district

Performance Spread

How students are distributed across the four state-assessment proficiency levels — L1: below standard, L2: approaching, L3: meets (proficient), L4: exceeds. This describes the shape of results at the school, not their height.

Students at this school are typically spread across proficiency levels.

  • Level 1 — Below standard48%
  • Level 2 — Approaching standard23%
  • Level 3 — Meets standard (proficient)17%
  • Level 4 — Exceeds standard12%

Performance Spread measures how evenly students are distributed across the L1..L4 proficiency ladder, treating the levels as an ordered scale (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4) and weighting each by its student share. A school where most students cluster at one level has a TIGHT spread; a school split between the bottom and top has a WIDE or BIMODAL spread. Bimodal fires only when BOTH tails are non-trivial AND the middle is relatively hollow (pct_L1 ≥ 15, pct_L4 ≥ 25, pct_L2 + pct_L3 ≤ 60). It describes shape — NOT how high the school's scores are. Methodology

Nearby Schools

Sorted by distance. Both rank columns shown so you can compare quickly.

SchoolAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Clover Park Early Learning Program Rankings coming soon.
CPSD Open Doors Program Rankings coming soon.
Tyee Park Elementary School#631#502High
Special Education Services/relife Rankings coming soon.
General William H. Harrison Preparatory School#492#398High

Similar Schools

Schools with comparable demographics, income, and size. Both rank columns shown for direct comparison.

SchoolAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Midway Elementary#662#372High
Chief Kamiakin Elementary School#39#41High
Sunnycrest Elementary School#670#463High
Wildwood Elementary School#628#395High
Royal High School Rankings coming soon.

Historical Ranks

Year-by-year decoded and achievement ranks. Pandemic-affected years are excluded — we don't interpolate scores across the gap.

YearAchievementDecodedShift
2023#592#294

Note: assessment transitions (where a state changes its test) are footnoted on the methodology page; trends are not computed across breakpoints.

Trajectory

Not enough years yet

Trajectory will appear with 2025-26 data once we have two or more years of rankings for this school.

How this works: we fit a linear trend across the available years of Decoded percentile, then bucket the slope into a direction. Wide confidence intervals (uncertain trends) collapse to Holding steady. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Cohort Progression

Kids who started 3rd grade here in 2017 gained 22 proficiency points by 5th grade — gaining, versus a metro median of about 0/yr.

Based on 10 cohorts across math + ELA.

Learning rate: +1.4 proficiency points/yr (95% CI -4.8 to 7.6)

Medium confidence

Cohort 201520162017201820192023 Slope
ELA · started 5th in 2015
G5
187
ELA · started 4th in 2015
G4
195
G5
204
+9.9
ELA · started 3rd in 2015
G3
174
G4
205
G5
198
+12.4
ELA · started 3rd in 2016
G3
204
G4
206
G5
209
+2.5
ELA · started 3rd in 2017
G3
191
G4
208
G5
213
+10.8
ELA · started 3rd in 2018
G3
246
G4
231
-15.1
ELA · started 3rd in 2019
G3
186
ELA · started 5th in 2023
G5
205
ELA · started 4th in 2023
G4
176
ELA · started 3rd in 2023
G3
207
Math · started 5th in 2015
G5
176
Math · started 4th in 2015
G4
197
G5
194
-2.9
Math · started 3rd in 2015
G3
185
G4
221
G5
193
+3.9
Math · started 3rd in 2016
G3
229
G4
218
G5
214
-7.5
Math · started 3rd in 2017
G3
212
G4
209
G5
228
+7.6
Math · started 3rd in 2018
G3
259
G4
246
-13.1
Math · started 3rd in 2019
G3
213
Math · started 5th in 2023
G5
188
Math · started 4th in 2023
G4
169
Math · started 3rd in 2023
G3
206

How this works: we follow each grade-cohort across years through the school (3rd graders in 2023 are 4th graders in 2024, etc.) and fit a linear slope on a 100–400 proficiency-points scale built from the state assessment's four levels (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4, weighted by student share). This is the same construction Stanford SEDA uses (edopportunity.org/methods); it's not student-level tracking — we measure the school's cohort, not individuals. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Evidence & technical detailClick to expand

School Alpha

School Alpha is the residual between actual and expected performance once school context is held constant. It is a context-adjusted estimate, not a causal claim about teaching quality.

Shrunk Alpha (95% CI)
+0.48 (95% CI: +0.44 to +0.51)

SES index components

SES method
Blended SES index (ACS + FRL)
SES index value
9.9
FRL %
83.9%
ELL %
43.6% · WA OSPI Report Card Enrollment
SPED %
17.6% · WA OSPI Report Card Enrollment
Tract median income (ACS 5-year)
$57,005
Tract poverty rate
0.2%
Tract % bachelor's+
8.9%

What "Decoded Rank" means

Decoded Rank converts School Alpha — the context-adjusted residual — into a parent-facing rank within the metro pool. A higher Decoded Rank than Achievement Rank means the school's raw scores understate its performance once neighborhood and school context are held constant. The reverse means raw scores overstate it. The rank is one signal, not a verdict.

Data & sources

Assessment data
2022–23 school year
NCES CCD vintage
2022
Census ACS 5-year vintage
2020-2024
Last updated
July 26, 2026
Methodology version
0.9.0
Source files (3)

SchoolDecoder publishes context-adjusted residuals, not causal estimates. Decoded Rank is one signal — not a verdict on teaching quality. Read about limitations →