Edison Elementary School

Edison Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in Tacoma, Washington, overseen by Tacoma School District, with 413 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Edison Elementary School is one of 66 schools operated by Tacoma School District, a district that works with 28,900 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Edison Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 25% White, 18% multiracial, 17% Black, 7% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Edison Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Edison Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.6%; this one delivers 37.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Pierce County) reports that median household earnings sit near $99,564, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Edison Elementary School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

The closest other public school is Arlington Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edison Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Edison Elementary School's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 432 (now 413). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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