Fife Elementary School

Set in Tacoma, Washington, Fife Elementary School is a well-populated elementary school, part of Fife School District. It teaches 866 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 128% bigger than typical.

Fife School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,983 students; Fife Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Fife Elementary School logs that 29% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 24% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 12% Pacific Islander, 10% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Fife Elementary School has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Fife Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.8%; this one delivers 42.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Fife Elementary School is one.

Fife Open Doors is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fife Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.