Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530870001462
Edison Elementary School
5830 S Pine St, Tacoma, WA 98409 · (253) 571-1700 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
293 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
39.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.6pp since 2014
Math
35.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +4.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 | 39.8% | 35.1% |
| 2023-24 | 33.7% | 33.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.1% | 29.3% |
| 2021-22 | 35.9% | 24.9% |
| 2018-19 | 59.0% | 55.6% |
| 2017-18 | 61.9% | 49.8% |
| 2016-17 | 51.0% | 37.5% |
| 2015-16 | 48.3% | 38.5% |
| 2014-15 | 39.1% | 30.7% |
% 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
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Edison Elementary School
Edison Elementary School's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Elementary School this school | 413 | 70.9% | 37.0% |
| Whitman Elementary School Tacoma | 365 | 71.2% | 31.5% |
| Twin Lakes Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 371 | 72.5% | 47.1% |
| Midland Elementary Tacoma | 399 | 69.4% | 38.9% |
| Custer Elementary School Lakewood | 358 | 74.0% | 41.0% |
| Arlington Elementary School Tacoma | 390 | 75.9% | 24.0% |
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 Edison Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #682 of 936 | #110 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #770 of 1,103 ▲ 31 | #109 of 142 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #753 of 1,102 ▲ 122 | #106 of 142 ▲ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.1pp | #173 of 928 | #33 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #586 of 1,268 | #85 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #616 of 1,085 | #72 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.0% | #65 of 1,088 | #29 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.9% | #248 of 1,169 | #26 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #684 of 778 | #77 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
413
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 413 | 25.7 | 16.1:1 | 71% (293) |
| 2023-24 | 417 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 77% (323) |
| 2022-23 | 389 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 72% (279) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 71% (298) |
| 2017-18 | 432 | 24.8 | 17.4:1 | 79% (343) |
| 2015-16 | 498 | 29 | 17.2:1 | 84% (417) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 26 | 17.0:1 | 71% (316) |
| 2000-01 | 607 | 32 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 22 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edison Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (432 to 413); teachers up 4% (24.8 to 25.7).
About Edison Elementary School
Among the schools in Tacoma, Washington, is Edison Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 413 students.
The district, Tacoma School District, operates 66 schools serving 28,900 students.
No group is above 50% at Edison Elementary School; the largest is Hispanic, at 30%. Beyond that, enrollment is 25% White, 18% multiracial, 17% Black, and 7% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 13%. The diversity index for Edison Elementary School is 78%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 16.1:1 is based on 25.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. In all, 71% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 50% average among public schools in Pierce County.
In Washington, Edison Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 37.0% actual against a predicted 32.6%.
In Pierce County, median household income comes to about $99,564, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Pierce County counts 287 public schools with about 138,462 students.
Of the public schools around it, Edison Elementary School is closest to Arlington Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Edison Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Edison Elementary School at 3rd of 8.
Edison Elementary School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 413, starting from 419. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 15.0:1 in 2020-21 to 16.1:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Tacoma School District
- 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
- Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 687 students
- Tacoma School of the ArtsHigh · 658 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
Other Edison Elementary schools
37 other US public schools in 19 states are named Edison Elementary. Edison Elementary School is the 15th largest of the 38.
- Edison Elementary SchoolWALLA WALLA, WA · 464 students
- Edison ElementaryEDISON, WA · 390 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolKENNEWICK, WA · 378 students
- Edison ElementaryCentralia, WA · 313 students
- Edison ElementaryOntario, CA · 736 students
Nearby schools
- Arlington Elementary School0.8 mi · 390
- Gray Middle School0.9 mi · 510
- Angelo Giaudrone Middle School0.9 mi · 449
- Manitou Park Elementary School1.1 mi · 429
- Madison Headstart1.1 mi · 23
- Mann Elementary School1.3 mi · 340
Frequently asked questions
About Edison Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Edison Elementary School?
Edison Elementary School enrolls approximately 413 students in grades PK-05.
Is Edison Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Edison Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Edison Elementary School have?
Edison Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Edison Elementary School?
Student demographics at Edison Elementary School are roughly 25% White, 30% Hispanic, 17% Black, 7% Asian, 18% Two or more.
What district is Edison Elementary School in?
Edison Elementary School is part of Tacoma School District.
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