Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530870001470
Grant Elementary School
2510 N 11th St, Tacoma, WA 98406 · (253) 571-5400 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
117 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
61%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
57.4%
WA avg 58.4% . +12.4pp since 2014
Math
50.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +11.2pp 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 51 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 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.4% | 50.8% |
| 2023-24 | 58.4% | 52.8% |
| 2022-23 | 63.4% | 55.3% |
| 2021-22 | 65.7% | 52.9% |
| 2018-19 | 67.7% | 53.9% |
| 2017-18 | 62.0% | 59.0% |
| 2016-17 | 63.7% | 57.5% |
| 2015-16 | 53.1% | 52.2% |
| 2014-15 | 45.0% | 39.6% |
% 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
57.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Grant Elementary School
Grant Elementary School's state test result (57.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Elementary School this school | 378 | 31.0% | 57.3% |
| Daniel Bagley Elementary School SEATTLE | 337 | 25.5% | 68.8% |
| Cougar Valley Elementary SILVERDALE | 397 | 37.8% | 48.4% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Tacoma | 358 | 38.0% | 68.2% |
| Point Defiance Elementary School Tacoma | 301 | 33.9% | 62.9% |
| Sunnyside Elementary Pullman | 326 | 30.1% | 70.8% |
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 Grant Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.3% | #304 of 936 | #47 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #431 of 1,103 ▼ 46 | #59 of 142 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #355 of 1,102 ▼ 23 | #51 of 142 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.2pp | #137 of 928 | #23 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #724 of 1,268 | #99 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #923 of 1,085 | #115 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #510 of 1,088 | #106 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.0% | #921 of 1,169 | #128 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.5% | #123 of 257 | #20 of 43 |
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
378
+34 (+10%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 386
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
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 | 378 | 21.5 | 17.6:1 | 31% (117) |
| 2023-24 | 376 | 22.5 | 16.7:1 | 33% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 339 | 22.5 | 15.1:1 | 30% (103) |
| 2020-21 | 344 | 23 | 15.0:1 | 27% (94) |
| 2017-18 | 342 | 23.2 | 14.7:1 | 32% (109) |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 38% (139) |
| 2010-11 | 394 | 23 | 17.1:1 | 35% (138) |
| 2000-01 | 318 | 19 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 386 | 20 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grant Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (342 to 378); teachers down 7% (23.2 to 21.5).
About Grant Elementary School
Grant Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in Tacoma, Washington. School enrollment was 378 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 5.
Tacoma School District has a total of 66 schools and 28,900 students, Grant Elementary School among them.
At 57%, White students outnumber all other groups at Grant Elementary School combined. It is also 20% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 2% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Grant Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
At Grant Elementary School, 21.5 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 17.6:1. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average ratio is about 17.3:1. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 31% of enrollment. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Pierce County is 19 points.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Grant Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Washington schools: 57.3% actual against 59.4% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Pierce County show that median household income is about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 287 public schools in Pierce County, with a combined enrollment of about 138,462.
The shortest distance from Grant Elementary School to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Hilltop Heritage Middle School. The five-mile area around Grant Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 38.1%, lower than Grant Elementary School's 57.3%.
The NCES locale for Grant Elementary School is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Grant Elementary School had 344 students in 2020-21 and 378 in 2024-25, a 10% increase. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.0:1 to 17.6:1 over the same years.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Grant Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Grant Elementary schools
34 other US public schools in 13 states are named Grant Elementary. Grant Elementary School is the 15th largest of the 35.
- Grant Elementary SchoolEast Wenatchee, WA · 534 students
- Grant ElementaryEPHRATA, WA · 466 students
- Grant ElementarySpokane, WA · 289 students
- Grant ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 951 students
- Grant ElementaryRedding, CA · 600 students
Nearby schools
- Hilltop Heritage Middle School0.3 mi · 447
- Bryant Montessori Middle School0.5 mi · 135
- Bryant Montessori School0.5 mi · 313
- Lowell Elementary School0.6 mi · 331
- Franklin Elementary School0.9 mi · 260
- Stanley Elementary School1.1 mi · 325
Frequently asked questions
About Grant Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Grant Elementary School?
Grant Elementary School enrolls approximately 378 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Grant Elementary School serve?
Grant Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Grant Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Grant Elementary School is approximately 17.6:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Grant Elementary School?
At Grant Elementary School, the student body is approximately 57% White, 12% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Is Grant Elementary School public or private?
Grant Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tacoma School District.
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