Lake Roosevelt Elementary

Coulee Dam, WA · Grades ?–6

Neighborhood

Decoded Rank

All factors combined

Bottom 30% decoded

#134 of 176

rural Washington schools

Performing as Expected

#882 in WA

Achievement Rank

Raw test performance

Bottom 15% achievement

#159 of 176

rural Washington schools

#1403 in WA

places from achievement to Decoded Rank

This school performs roughly as expected for its context.

Data confidence:High250 students tested 8 years98% 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: #134 of 176

in rural Washington schools

Raw test scores rank this school #159, but after accounting for context, students here outperform what the data would predict. The Decoded Rank places it at #134.

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

  • LowPerforms 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?

  • StrongEquity within the schoolCounts for 15% of the rank

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

  • About averageDirection 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%14-12.7
Students gain ground year over year 30%33-5.1
Equity within the school 15%85+5.3
Direction over recent years 10%50+0.0
Most students were tested 10%98+4.8

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
Within Rural Washington (176 schools)#159#134
WA (1506 schools)#1403#882

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
354
Free/reduced-price lunch
75.1%
Student-teacher ratio
15.4:1
Locale
Rural, remote
School type
Regular public school
Enrollment model
Neighborhood attendance area
Neighborhood median income
$62,684ACS tract proxy
Neighborhood poverty
0.2%ACS tract proxy
SES index
17.7
Assessment data year
2025
CCD year
2024
ACS vintage
2020-2024

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 cluster closely on the proficiency ladder.

  • Level 1 — Below standard49%
  • Level 2 — Approaching standard29%
  • Level 3 — Meets standard (proficient)15%
  • Level 4 — Exceeds standard7%

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.

No nearby schools have been ranked yet.

Similar Schools

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

SchoolAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
West View Elementary#39#17High
Christensen Elementary#521#190High
Rainier Prep#226#25High
Custer Elementary School#412#96Medium
Hood Canal Elementary 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
2025Excluded
2024Excluded
2023Excluded

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 2015 gained 26 proficiency points by 6th grade.

Cohort-to-cohort variance is high — interpret the headline cautiously.

Learning rate: +0.9 proficiency points/yr (95% CI -7.2 to 9.1)

Medium confidence

Cohort 20152016201720182019202320242025 Slope
ELA · started 6th in 2015
G6
231
ELA · started 5th in 2015
G5
192
G6
238
+46.3
ELA · started 4th in 2015
G4
177
G5
178
G6
215
+18.8
ELA · started 3rd in 2015
G3
207
G4
209
G5
192
G6
233
+6.0
ELA · started 3rd in 2016
G3
189
G4
191
G5
196
G6
213
+7.7
ELA · started 3rd in 2017
G3
181
G4
195
G5
184
+1.1
ELA · started 3rd in 2018
G3
184
G4
220
+35.6
ELA · started 3rd in 2019
G3
198
ELA · started 6th in 2023
G6
160
G7
G8
ELA · started 5th in 2023
G5
180
G6
168
-13.0
ELA · started 4th in 2023
G4
171
G5
171
G6
171
-0.1
ELA · started 3rd in 2023
G3
207
G4
190
G5
210
+1.5
ELA · started 3rd in 2024
G3
173
G4
171
-1.7
ELA · started 3rd in 2025
G3
175
Math · started 6th in 2015
G6
226
Math · started 5th in 2015
G5
202
G6
222
+19.9
Math · started 4th in 2015
G4
171
G5
155
G6
194
+11.6
Math · started 3rd in 2015
G3
216
G4
220
G5
176
G6
208
-7.0
Math · started 3rd in 2016
G3
217
G4
216
G5
176
G6
176
-16.2
Math · started 3rd in 2017
G3
203
G4
187
G5
160
-21.7
Math · started 3rd in 2018
G3
183
G4
189
+5.8
Math · started 3rd in 2019
G3
228
Math · started 6th in 2023
G6
128
G7
G8
Math · started 5th in 2023
G5
144
G6
Math · started 4th in 2023
G4
184
G5
155
G6
-29.9
Math · started 3rd in 2023
G3
233
G4
212
G5
180
-26.3
Math · started 3rd in 2024
G3
173
G4
179
+5.4
Math · started 3rd in 2025
G3
193

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)
-0.32 (95% CI: -0.37 to -0.28)

SES index components

SES method
Blended SES index (ACS + FRL)
SES index value
17.7
FRL %
75.1%
ELL %
SPED %
Tract median income (ACS 5-year)
$62,684
Tract poverty rate
0.2%
Tract % bachelor's+
19.8%

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
2024–25 school year
NCES CCD vintage
2024
Census ACS 5-year vintage
2020-2024
Last updated
May 29, 2026
Methodology version
0.2.0

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