Browns Point Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary school in Tacoma, Washington, Browns Point Elementary School works with 445 students from grades K through 5, part of Tacoma School District.

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

Demographically, Browns Point Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 18% multiracial, 15% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Browns Point Elementary School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Browns Point Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.5%, the actual is 74.3%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the broader community, Pierce County reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Browns Point Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Meeker Middle School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Browns Point Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Browns Point Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.0%.

Browns Point Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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