Lowell Elementary School

Lowell Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Tacoma, Washington, overseen by Tacoma School District, with 331 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Tacoma School District, which oversees 66 schools and 28,900 students, Lowell Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lowell Elementary School logs that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 4% Asian. Compared to Pierce County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Lowell Elementary School logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lowell Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Lowell Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grant Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lowell Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 432 students in 2018 compared to 331 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 72% to 61%.

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