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Enrollment
2,087
High
DISTRICT 963 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530048003003
Graham Kapowsin High School
22100 108th Ave E, Graham, WA 98338 · (253) 800-6100 · Pierce County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,087 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Washington public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.4:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
1,000 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 551 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 568 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 509 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 459 | 22% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
56.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.6pp since 2014
Math
23.4%
WA avg 51.2% . +0.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.9% | 23.4% |
| 2023-24 | 56.2% | 14.4% |
| 2022-23 | 56.2% | 18.1% |
| 2021-22 | 58.7% | 21.2% |
| 2018-19 | 69.7% | 35.4% |
| 2017-18 | 61.6% | 39.4% |
| 2016-17 | 23.7% | 20.3% |
| 2015-16 | 24.0% | 26.9% |
| 2014-15 | 54.2% | 22.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Graham Kapowsin High School
Graham Kapowsin High School's state test result (35.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graham Kapowsin High School this school | 2,087 | 47.9% | 35.4% |
| Gov John Rogers High School Puyallup | 1,788 | 46.7% | 35.9% |
| Bethel High School Spanaway | 1,688 | 50.8% | 42.9% |
| Emerald Ridge High School Puyallup | 1,599 | 43.7% | 45.6% |
| Evergreen High School Vancouver | 1,427 | 50.6% | N/A |
| North Thurston High School Lacey | 1,378 | 50.2% | 43.8% |
Matched among Washington high 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 Graham Kapowsin High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #196 of 271 | #23 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #211 of 321 ▲ 52 | #20 of 32 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.9% | #173 of 327 ▲ 25 | #21 of 33 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.2pp | #109 of 259 | #14 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,087 | #19 of 570 | #1 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.2:1 | #287 of 311 | #28 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.9% | #51 of 316 | #17 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.9% | #210 of 386 | #20 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.9% | #94 of 136 | #12 of 17 |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,087
+237 (+13%) vs 2020
+53% since 2010-11, when it was 1,360
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
was 23.4:1
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 | 2,087 | 86.3 | 24.2:1 | 48% (1,000) |
| 2023-24 | 2,105 | 84.1 | 25.0:1 | 47% (988) |
| 2022-23 | 2,011 | 84.8 | 23.7:1 | 49% (985) |
| 2020-21 | 1,850 | 79 | 23.4:1 | 38% (699) |
| 2017-18 | 1,970 | 83.2 | 23.7:1 | 35% (691) |
| 2015-16 | 1,960 | 77 | 25.4:1 | 34% (662) |
| 2010-11 | 1,360 | 59 | 23.1:1 | 21% (279) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Graham Kapowsin High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (1,970 to 2,087); teachers up 4% (83.2 to 86.3).
About Graham Kapowsin High School
Graham Kapowsin High School runs as a high-enrollment high school in Graham, Washington. The school offers grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 2,087 students. Across high schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 573.
Bethel School District counts 21,732 students in its 39 schools, and Graham Kapowsin High School is one of them.
About 45% of students at Graham Kapowsin High School are White, the largest single group. Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 7% Black, and 5% Pacific Islander. The White share of the county population is higher, at 64%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
The school has 86.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 24.2 students per teacher. The average for high schools in Washington is 21.6:1, so this school has more students per teacher. The school reported 48% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Pierce County average a similar 50%.
Among Washington public high schools, Graham Kapowsin High School outscored 16%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Graham Kapowsin High School ranks in the bottom 10% in Washington. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 35.4%, against a prediction of 48.1%.
The school is in Pierce County, where the median household earns about $99,564 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Graham Kapowsin High School shares Pierce County with 286 other public schools.
Frontier Middle School is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 50.2% on proficiency, and Graham Kapowsin High School is below that at 35.4%.
In the federal locale system, Graham Kapowsin High School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 2,087, up from 1,850 in 2020-21.
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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 Bethel School District
- Spanaway Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,787 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 1,688 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Spanaway Middle SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Cedarcrest Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
- Chester H Thompson ElementaryElementary · 688 students
Other schools in Graham
- Frontier Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Cougar Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 605 students
- Centennial ElementaryElementary · 540 students
- Nelson Elementary SchoolElementary · 497 students
- North Star ElementaryElementary · 446 students
- Rocky Ridge ElementaryElementary · 430 students
Nearby schools
- Frontier Middle School0.1 mi · 620
- Nelson Elementary School0.1 mi · 497
- Graham Elementary1.0 mi · 428
- Expedition Elementary1.8 mi · 530
- North Star Elementary2.0 mi · 446
- Liberty Middle School2.2 mi · 857
Frequently asked questions
About Graham Kapowsin High SchoolHow many students attend Graham Kapowsin High School?
Graham Kapowsin High School enrolls approximately 2,087 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Graham Kapowsin High School serve?
Graham Kapowsin High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Graham Kapowsin High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Graham Kapowsin High School is approximately 24.2:1 (86 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Graham Kapowsin High School?
Graham Kapowsin High School reports a student body of 45% White, 20% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% Asian, 16% Two or more.
What district is Graham Kapowsin High School in?
Graham Kapowsin High School is part of Bethel School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.