Meeker Elementary

At 409 5th St SW in Puyallup, Washington, Meeker Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 366 students.

Puyallup School District runs 37 schools with a combined 23,026 students. Meeker Elementary is one of them.

The share of White students at Meeker Elementary is 54%, a majority. It is also 15% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 7% Asian. For comparison, the population of Pierce County is roughly 64% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.

Meeker Elementary has 23.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.8:1. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 50%. That is in line with the 50% average for public schools in Pierce County.

Meeker Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.6%, compared with a predicted 46.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.

In Pierce County, 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%. Across Pierce County, 287 public schools serve about 138,462 students.

Puyallup High School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Meeker Elementary at 5th of 8.

Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The school's size has been steady, with 370 students in 2020-21 and 366 in 2024-25.

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