Setting Higher Standards / How We Are Improving
Chase Lake's restructuring plan emphasizes classroom learning environments and instructional practices aligned to what we know about how students learn - they remember 90 percent of what THEY say and do. Our students question, discover, problem solve, think critically, and create as they strive to reach the standards outlined in the Edmonds School District Frameworks.

The Chase Lake staff is committed to implementing a standards-based system with provisions to ensure that all students succeed. Our staff has been involved in the Edmonds Math Project, in which students learn to reason, make sense of mathematics, and apply their knowledge in new situations. Staff has also received training in effective ways to deliver reading and writing instruction. Our Readiness to Learn Grant has helped us to develop a caring community, with varied learning experiences for children, adults, and families. In addition, we have a pre-school program to provide young children with important learning experiences to ready them for school, plus an all day, every day kindergarten program and before and after- school child-care to offer students extended learning experiences.

We moved into a newly built Chase Lake School at the start of the 2000-2001 school year. This new building provides an all encompassing and flexible learning environment to accommodate the instructional goals and directions for the present and future. Friendly and welcoming to our entire community, this new structure allows us to continue providing varied experiences and resources through our Community Learning Center. Community groups and organizations will be able to take advantage of Chase Lake's vibrant, energetic, productive, and on-going learning climate for all ages: preschool, students, adults, and families.


School Mission
Chase Lake is a small community school that cares about each individual child. Naming our school, "The Chase Lake Community School" signifies our mission to promote on-going learning for all ages.

School Goals
Chase Lake will provide a climate that supports:

Students appreciated as unique individuals, each gifted with strengths, talents, special needs, and learning styles;

Students receiving an instructional program that challenges their intellectual and natural curiosity;

Students participating in a technologically-rich program, providing a variety of ways to access information and communicate knowledge;

Students involved with the community, to make connections and to understand the relevancy of their learning to real life;

Students, families, and community members having access to on-going learning experiences through the school during extended day activities.

What is a Performance Report?
Each school in our district has created a performance report in compliance with 1993 state education reform legislation. The information provided is a snapshot of what Chase Lake Elementary has to offer you and your child. We encourage you to visit our school in person and via our website www.school.edmonds.wednet.edu/cl/ to learn more.


Our Students
Enrollment 425
African American 9%
Asian 9%
Caucasian 70%
Hispanic 10%
Native American 2%

In addition to English, the following languages are represented at Chase Lake: Arabic, Bulgarian, Farsi, Greek (Modern), Hungarian, Ibo, Korean, Pilipino, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

Student Attendance
2000-2001 2001-2002
88 % 91%

Students who come to school every day have a better chance to learn. This figure represents the percentage of students who were absent 9 days or less from September through February 1st.

Our celebration
* Our new building
* The inclusion of preschool and child-care to our school program
* School-wide emphasis on improvement of student writing
* A variety of after-school student activities: arts and crafts, science, sports, and drama
* A strong instrumental and vocal music program
* A student-made tile mural for our inside hallway as part of the artist-in-residence program
* A strong, actively involved School Site Council
* Young Author's Conference to celebrate all of our students as authors


Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS)
Grades 3 and 6

The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) is a state-mandated test designed to measure students' attainment of basic skills. Strictly timed, the format of the test is entirely multiple-choice. The performance of our students is compared to the performance of a representative sample of students from across the country.

Description of Graph

The results are reported as National Percentile Rank (NPR) scores. The NPR can range from 1 to 99. It compares our students' performance to the performance of students across the country in the same grade who took the ITBS as part of the national comparison study. For example, if our students on average scored at the 54th NPR, they scored as well or better than 54 percent of the students in the national comparison group, and 46 percent of the students in the national comparison group scored better than our students.

The results are reported below as the average NPR for the school, the district, and the state in each subject are tested. The national average is always 50.

Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL)
Grades 4, 7 and 10

This state-mandated test is designed to measure students' progress toward meeting state standards (known as the Essential Academic Learning Requirements). About half the test is multiple choice, and about half is "open-ended," requiring students to write out their answers in words, diagrams and charts. Generally, the assessment measures how well students can apply their knowledge in an untimed setting. Students show their thinking in a variety of ways, including writing essays, solving complex math problems, and explaining the steps they followed to solve a problem.

The numbers below represent the percentages of students who met or exceeded the standard in each subject area tested. The horizontal line on the reading graph shows the State's three-year accountability goal for this school. This is the minimum percentage of students who will need to meet the reading standard in 2001.

Parent involvement
Percent of students whose parent(s) attended a parent-teacher conference this year
Our School District
99% 96.25%
Chase Lake parents and community organizations, agencies, and businesses are working together to ensure successful learning for all students.


Our school building
* New building opened: September, 2000
* Classrooms built around learning clusters for collaborative learning opportunities
* Science lab and Library Media Center
* Commons area for large and small group learning experiences
* A Community Room


Before and after-school care
- Provided on site by the YMCA, 6:15 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., and 3:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.


Invitation to participate
Children have greater success in school when parents and the community are involved in their education. For information on the opportunities available please call the office phone number listed below.


To view or receive a report from another school go to www.edmonds.wednet.edu or call 425-670-7045. Call the same number for a report in a different format for persons with disabilities.


Our School Expenditures
Most of the dollars in the school district budget are allocated according to specific formulas. For example, the number of students in a given school generates a specific number of teachers. The chart to the right shows how the budget for the average elementary school is distributed.


Our Per Pupil Expenditures
With actual expenditures of $138.6 million and 20,632 full-time students, Edmonds School District expended $6,719.29 per student in 2001-02. This chart represents the division of that expenditure into five categories: central administration; instruction and instructional support, including teachers, specialists, and principals; school-based support, including custodians, maintenance, food service and utilities; district-level support, including curriculum development, transportation, and data processing; and public services (self sufficient programs such as child care).


How Our Schools are Funded
Schools receive funding from several revenue sources. This chart represents the division of that revenue into six sources: local taxes; local non-tax; state general purpose; state special purpose; federal general and special purpose; and other, including funds from other school districts, agencies and sources.


District mission and vision
To advocate for all students by providing a learning environment which empowers students, staff and the community to maximize their personal, creative, and academic potential in order to become lifelong learners and responsible world citizens.

Edmonds School District
20420 68th Avenue West
Lynnwood, WA 98036-7400


Chase Lake Elementary
Karen Nilson, Principal
21603 84th Avenue West
Edmonds, WA 98020
425-670-7495