Edna Travis Elementary School

Edna Travis Elementary School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Tacoma, Washington, one of the schools within Tacoma School District. Current enrollment sits at 337 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Edna Travis Elementary School is one of 66 schools operated by Tacoma School District, a district that teaches 28,900 students overall.

On demographics, Edna Travis Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Black at 25%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 22% multiracial, 20% White, 20% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the income-and-resources front, Edna Travis Elementary School reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 78% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Edna Travis Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.6%; actual is 16.1%, a gap of -11.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Pierce County put median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Edna Travis Elementary School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Tacoma Open Doors is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Edna Travis Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edna Travis Elementary School has fell 22%, going from 434 students in 2018 to 337 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 15% to 20%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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