Fife Open Doors

Set in Tacoma, Washington, Fife Open Doors is an one-room-style 9-12 campus, operated by Fife School District. It works with 25 students across grades 10 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 96% leaner than typical.

Within Fife School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,983 students, Fife Open Doors is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Fife Open Doors lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 28%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 28% multiracial, 20% White, 20% Pacific Islander, 4% Asian. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Roughly 76% of students at Fife Open Doors qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

In the broader community, census data for Pierce County shows median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Fife Open Doors is one campus in the mix.

Fife High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

On the community side, the feed for Fife Open Doors typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.