Dr. Dolores Silas High School

Dr. Dolores Silas High School, an expansive four-year high school in Tacoma, Washington, one of the schools within Tacoma School District, enrolls 1,160 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 102% bigger than typical.

Tacoma School District runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 28,900 students. Dr. Dolores Silas High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Dr. Dolores Silas High School logs that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 17% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Dr. Dolores Silas High School logs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dr. Dolores Silas High School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.1%; Dr. Dolores Silas High School posts 34.9%, -17.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Pierce County) shows that median household income runs about $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Dr. Dolores Silas High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dr. Dolores Silas High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

Dr. Dolores Silas High School operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 1,280 students in 2018 compared to 1,160 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 in 2025.

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