Harbor Heights Elementary School

Harbor Heights Elementary School is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Gig Harbor, Washington, overseen by Peninsula School District, with 397 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Peninsula School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 9,015 students. Harbor Heights Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Harbor Heights Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 2% Asian, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Harbor Heights Elementary School logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pierce County (around 50%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harbor Heights Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.2%, the actual is 74.3%, a residual of +8.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Pierce County put median household earnings sit near $99,564, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Harbor Heights Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Goodman Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harbor Heights Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Harbor Heights Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 32% since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 397).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Harbor Heights Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.