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Chloe Clark Elementary
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Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Chloe Clark Elementary
Set in DuPont, Washington, Chloe Clark Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus, part of Steilacoom Hist. School District. It works with 475 students across grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Chloe Clark Elementary sits 25% above that benchmark.
Steilacoom Hist. School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,043 students. Chloe Clark Elementary is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Chloe Clark Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Asian, 8% Black. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 27% 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chloe Clark Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.7%.
Across the wider county, Pierce County reports that median household income runs about $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Chloe Clark Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Pioneer Middle, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chloe Clark Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chloe Clark Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.2%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 559 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.
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