Blix Elementary School

Blix Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Tacoma, Washington, part of Tacoma School District. The school instructs 442 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Tacoma School District, which oversees 66 schools and 28,900 students, Blix Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Blix Elementary School shows that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 20% White, 12% multiracial, 12% Asian, 10% Black. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Blix Elementary School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Blix Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Pierce County put median household income runs about $99,564, 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 Blix Elementary School is one.

Lister Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blix Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Blix Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

Blix Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 34% to 42% across the same window.

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