Perry G Keithley Middle School

As a reasonably sized junior high in TACOMA, Washington, Perry G Keithley Middle School caters to 804 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Franklin Pierce School District. Enrollment runs roughly 39% bigger than the state mean of about 577.

Franklin Pierce School District comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 7,187 students; Perry G Keithley Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Perry G Keithley Middle School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 24% White, 16% multiracial, 11% Black, 10% Pacific Islander. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, Perry G Keithley Middle School reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Perry G Keithley Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.1%; this one comes in at 17.5%, -16.5 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, Pierce County reports that median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Perry G Keithley Middle School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Nearest neighbor: Washington High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Perry G Keithley Middle School. On composite proficiency, Perry G Keithley Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

Perry G Keithley Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Perry G Keithley Middle School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 792 (now 804). The White share of enrollment contracted from 29% to 24% over that span.

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