Mount Tahoma High School

Located at 4634 S 74th Street, in Tacoma, Washington, Mount Tahoma High School is a well-populated four-year high school that hosts 1,410 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Tacoma School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so Mount Tahoma High School sits 146% larger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Mount Tahoma High School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 16% Asian, 16% White, 14% Black, 13% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 21.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Tahoma High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 24.9%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pierce County put median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Mount Tahoma High School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Nearest neighbor: Manitou Park Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Tahoma High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Tahoma High School has changed only slightly, going from 1,427 students in 2018 to 1,410 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 26% to 16%.

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