Gray Middle School

Gray Middle School operates as a reasonably sized junior high in Tacoma, Washington, part of Tacoma School District. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Tacoma School District comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 28,900 students; Gray Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Gray Middle School logs that 33% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 18% Black, 17% White, 16% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, Gray Middle School records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. The state averages about 18.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gray Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.7%; Gray Middle School posts 19.1%, -11.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pierce County put the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Gray Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Manitou Park Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gray Middle School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 25.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gray Middle School has contracted 3%, going from 526 students in 2018 to 510 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 29% to 17%.

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