Angelo Giaudrone Middle School

Angelo Giaudrone Middle School is one of the tight-knit intermediate schools in Tacoma, Washington, operated by Tacoma School District, with 449 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 577 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

Tacoma School District runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 28,900 students. Angelo Giaudrone Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Angelo Giaudrone Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 26%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 23% multiracial, 20% White, 16% Black, 7% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Angelo Giaudrone Middle School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Angelo Giaudrone Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at Angelo Giaudrone Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Angelo Giaudrone Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.9%; this one comes in at 21.1%, -10.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Pierce County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Angelo Giaudrone Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Mann Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Angelo Giaudrone Middle School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 32.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Angelo Giaudrone Middle School has ticked down 33%, going from 668 students in 2018 to 449 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 24% to 16%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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