Collins Elementary

Collins Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in Tacoma, Washington, one of the schools within Franklin Pierce School District. Current enrollment sits at 466 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 380.

Collins Elementary is one of 14 schools operated by Franklin Pierce School District, a district that hosts 7,187 students overall.

On demographics, Collins Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 25% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 9% Black, 9% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Collins Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Collins Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Collins Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.1%; this one delivers 42.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Pierce County put 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%. Collins Elementary is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Elmhurst Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Collins Elementary. On composite proficiency, Collins Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 7%: 437 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 52% to 38%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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