Meeker Middle School

As a reasonably sized junior high in Tacoma, Washington, Meeker Middle School hosts 567 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Tacoma School District.

Tacoma School District runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 28,900 students. Meeker Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Meeker Middle School reports that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 13% Asian, 7% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Meeker Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.0%; this one delivers 43.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Pierce County shows 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%. Meeker Middle School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Crescent Heights Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meeker Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Meeker Middle School's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 567). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 52% to 42%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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