Public school / Primary
Panther Lake Elementary School
Kent, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530396000628
- District
- Kent School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Panther Lake Elementary School is a public primary school in Kent, Washington, run by Kent School District. It enrols 529 students — the 33889th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
529
Teachers
35.0
Students per teacher
15.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Kent School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Kent-Meridian High School2,128 students
- 2Kentridge High School2,034 students
- 3Kentwood High School1,733 students
- 4Kentlake High School1,440 students
- 5Mill Creek Middle School794 students
- 6River Ridge Elementary678 students
- 7Covington Elementary School631 students
- 8Mattson Middle School617 students
- Enrollment+33.2%
- Teachers+34.6%
- Students per teacher−8.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory