Aylen Jr High

Located at 101 15th St SW, in Puyallup, Washington, Aylen Jr High is a mid-tier junior high that teaches 720 students (grades 7 through 9), one of the schools within Puyallup School District. Compared to the state average of about 577 students per school, that is 25% bigger than typical.

Puyallup School District comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 23,026 students; Aylen Jr High is among them.

On demographics, Aylen Jr High lists that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 4% Asian, 4% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Aylen Jr High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Aylen Jr High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 42.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Aylen Jr High is one.

Maplewood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Aylen Jr High comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 720 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 61% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 in 2025.

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