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Enrollment
441
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DIERINGER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530213002812
Dieringer Heights Elementary
21727 34th Street E., Lake Tapps, WA 98391 · (253) 826-4937 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL441 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
106 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 137 | 31% |
| Grade 4 | 139 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 165 | 37% |
This year's kindergarten class (137) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (165).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Dieringer Heights Elementary→North Tapps Middle School
Based on grade levels within Dieringer School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
72.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.6pp since 2014
Math
57.5%
WA avg 51.2% . +4.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 57.5% |
| 2023-24 | 72.2% | 63.0% |
| 2022-23 | 73.4% | 67.3% |
| 2021-22 | 71.8% | 66.7% |
| 2018-19 | 78.2% | 75.7% |
| 2017-18 | 85.2% | 76.7% |
| 2016-17 | 84.5% | 80.8% |
| 2015-16 | 80.5% | 72.1% |
| 2014-15 | 73.3% | 53.2% |
% 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
69.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Dieringer Heights Elementary
Dieringer Heights Elementary's state test result (69.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dieringer Heights Elementary this school | 441 | 24.0% | 69.0% |
| Browns Point Elementary School Tacoma | 445 | 20.4% | 74.3% |
| Lake Tapps Elementary Lake Tapps | 460 | 22.2% | 66.8% |
| Centennial Elementary OLYMPIA | 434 | 21.7% | 65.8% |
| Maywood Hills Elementary Bothell | 467 | 21.6% | 58.6% |
| Brier Elementary BRIER | 389 | 22.4% | 67.7% |
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 Dieringer Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #148 of 936 | #18 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #304 of 1,103 ▼ 92 | #36 of 142 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #124 of 1,102 ▲ 12 | #10 of 142 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.2pp | #174 of 928 | #31 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 441 | #479 of 1,268 | #72 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #713 of 1,085 | #84 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #474 of 1,088 | #102 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.0% | #995 of 1,169 | #137 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #588 of 778 | #68 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
441
-35 (-7%) vs 2020
+15% since 2000-01, when it was 382
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 441 | 26.6 | 16.6:1 | 24% (106) |
| 2023-24 | 480 | 28.1 | 17.1:1 | 19% (90) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 29.1 | 14.8:1 | 19% (84) |
| 2020-21 | 476 | 28 | 17.0:1 | 13% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 28.1 | 17.2:1 | 14% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 561 | 28 | 20.0:1 | 14% (80) |
| 2010-11 | 575 | 26 | 22.1:1 | 8% (47) |
| 2000-01 | 382 | 18 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dieringer Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (483 to 441); teachers down 5% (28.1 to 26.6).
About Dieringer Heights Elementary
Dieringer Heights Elementary is an elementary school in Lake Tapps, Washington, according to federal school records. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 441 students.
Dieringer School District enrolls 1,424 students, and its 3 schools include Dieringer Heights Elementary.
More than half of the students at Dieringer Heights Elementary are White (57%). Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Asian, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, and 4% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Dieringer Heights Elementary scores 62%.
The school's 26.6 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Dieringer Heights Elementary, 24% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Pierce County report 50%.
Test results at Dieringer Heights Elementary are 4.9 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (69.0% actual, 64.1% predicted).
In the surrounding county, Pierce County, the median household earns about $99,564 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Pierce County has 287 public schools with about 138,462 students, including Dieringer Heights Elementary.
A public school about 1.9 miles away, North Tapps Middle School, is the closest to Dieringer Heights Elementary. Dieringer Heights Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 64.9%, lower than Dieringer Heights Elementary's 69.0%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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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 Dieringer School District
- North Tapps Middle SchoolMiddle · 523 students
- Lake Tapps ElementaryElementary · 460 students
Other schools in Lake Tapps
- North Tapps Middle SchoolMiddle · 523 students
- Lake Tapps ElementaryElementary · 460 students
Nearby schools
- North Tapps Middle School1.9 mi · 523
- Emerald Hills Elementary2.3 mi · 551
- Muckleshoot Tribal School2.5 mi · 471
- Lake Tapps Elementary2.9 mi · 460
- Lakeridge Middle School3.0 mi · 763
- Crestwood Elementary3.1 mi · 393
Frequently asked questions
About Dieringer Heights ElementaryHow large is Dieringer Heights Elementary?
Dieringer Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 441 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Dieringer Heights Elementary serve?
Dieringer Heights Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dieringer Heights Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dieringer Heights Elementary is approximately 16.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Dieringer Heights Elementary?
Student demographics at Dieringer Heights Elementary are roughly 57% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 14% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Dieringer Heights Elementary?
Dieringer Heights Elementary is overseen by Dieringer School District in Pierce County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.