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Which teacher or staff member at Clover Creek Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 409 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530048000122
Clover Creek Elementary
16715 36th Avenue East, Tacoma, WA 98446 · (253) 800-7800 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Washington public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
318 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
59.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +5.6pp since 2014
Math
54.3%
WA avg 51.2% . +1.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.7% | 54.3% |
| 2023-24 | 57.9% | 53.6% |
| 2022-23 | 54.9% | 54.9% |
| 2021-22 | 50.5% | 46.3% |
| 2018-19 | 59.5% | 57.5% |
| 2017-18 | 57.3% | 58.8% |
| 2016-17 | 54.5% | 53.9% |
| 2015-16 | 50.6% | 47.6% |
| 2014-15 | 54.1% | 53.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Clover Creek Elementary
Clover Creek Elementary's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clover Creek Elementary this school | 617 | 51.5% | 54.6% |
| Pope Elementary Puyallup | 710 | 49.0% | 52.5% |
| Naches Trail Elementary Tacoma | 519 | 57.4% | 43.0% |
| Crescent Heights Elementary School Tacoma | 451 | 48.8% | 58.7% |
| Katherine G. Johnson Elementary School Tacoma | 592 | 54.9% | 58.0% |
| Sunrise Elementary Puyallup | 724 | 53.5% | 39.1% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Clover Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #355 of 936 | #57 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #360 of 1,103 ▲ 6 | #48 of 142 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.7% | #310 of 1,102 ▲ 26 | #42 of 142 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.6pp | #115 of 928 | #21 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #86 of 1,268 | #14 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #574 of 1,085 | #65 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.7% | #50 of 1,088 | #21 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.5% | #610 of 1,169 | #79 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.1% | #316 of 778 | #36 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
617
-165 (-21%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 521
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 617 | 38.8 | 15.9:1 | 52% (318) |
| 2023-24 | 635 | 38.3 | 16.6:1 | 51% (322) |
| 2022-23 | 630 | 38.1 | 16.5:1 | 51% (322) |
| 2020-21 | 782 | 48 | 16.3:1 | 45% (353) |
| 2017-18 | 763 | 42.8 | 17.8:1 | 47% (362) |
| 2015-16 | 674 | 39 | 17.3:1 | 44% (297) |
| 2010-11 | 315 | 17 | 18.5:1 | 31% (98) |
| 2000-01 | 459 | 22 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 521 | 25 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clover Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (763 to 617); teachers down 9% (42.8 to 38.8).
About Clover Creek Elementary
Clover Creek Elementary is a large elementary school with its address in Tacoma, Washington. The latest federal count shows 617 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 380 students, so this school is 62% larger than average.
Bethel School District enrolls 21,732 students, and its 39 schools include Clover Creek Elementary.
The most common group at Clover Creek Elementary is White students, at 33%. After that, the student body is 22% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 10% Black, and 9% Pacific Islander. Among all residents of Pierce County, the White share is about 64%. Pick two students at random and there is a 79% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At Clover Creek Elementary, 38.8 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 15.9:1. That is lower than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Roughly 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Pierce County average 50%.
Measured against Washington public elementary schools, Clover Creek Elementary receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Clover Creek Elementary, the prediction is 45.6% and the result is 54.6%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Pierce County show that the median household income is $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Clover Creek Elementary is one of 287 public schools in the county.
Katherine G. Johnson Elementary School is located about 0.5 miles from Clover Creek Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Clover Creek Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment declined 21% from its 2020-21 level of 782.
Parents and students can post about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Clover Creek Elementary. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bethel School District
- Graham Kapowsin High SchoolHigh · 2,087 students
- Spanaway Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,787 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 1,688 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Spanaway Middle SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Cedarcrest Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
Other schools in Tacoma
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Washington High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Franklin Pierce High SchoolHigh · 977 students
Nearby schools
- Katherine G. Johnson Elementary School0.5 mi · 592
- Naches Trail Elementary1.0 mi · 519
- Pierce County Skills Center1.2 mi · 355
- Evergreen Elementary1.5 mi · 530
- Spanaway Lake High School1.5 mi · 1,787
- Cedarcrest Middle School2.0 mi · 765
Frequently asked questions
About Clover Creek ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Clover Creek Elementary?
Clover Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 617 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Clover Creek Elementary serve?
Clover Creek Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Clover Creek Elementary?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Clover Creek Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Clover Creek Elementary?
Student demographics at Clover Creek Elementary are roughly 33% White, 22% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% Asian, 19% Two or more.
What district is Clover Creek Elementary in?
Clover Creek Elementary is part of Bethel School District.
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