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Enrollment
710
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUYALLUP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530696001866
Pope Elementary
15102 122nd Ave E, Puyallup, WA 98374 · (253) 841-8755 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL710 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
348 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 89 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 122 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 17% smaller than its 6th grade class (107).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
52.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -2.0pp since 2014
Math
49.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 49.9% |
| 2023-24 | 54.3% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.3% | 53.7% |
| 2021-22 | 56.2% | 55.6% |
| 2018-19 | 64.5% | 55.2% |
| 2017-18 | 56.3% | 48.3% |
| 2016-17 | 60.9% | 52.5% |
| 2015-16 | 53.1% | 49.4% |
| 2014-15 | 53.9% | 52.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pope Elementary
Pope Elementary's state test result (52.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pope Elementary this school | 710 | 49.0% | 52.5% |
| Emma L Carson Elementary Puyallup | 676 | 52.8% | 48.8% |
| Clover Creek Elementary Tacoma | 617 | 51.5% | 54.6% |
| Rainier Elementary School JBLM Lewis Main | 576 | 49.0% | 57.5% |
| Katherine G. Johnson Elementary School Tacoma | 592 | 54.9% | 58.0% |
| Lynnwood Elementary LYNNWOOD | 578 | 50.5% | 41.3% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pope Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.5% | #392 of 936 | #63 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #446 of 1,103 ▲ 47 | #63 of 142 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #466 of 1,102 ▼ 50 | #69 of 142 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.0pp | #144 of 928 | #26 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 710 | #26 of 1,268 | #7 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #731 of 1,085 | #88 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.1% | #116 of 1,088 | #45 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.0% | #658 of 1,169 | #88 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +24.6% | #42 of 257 | #7 of 43 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
710
+129 (+22%) vs 2020
+41% since 1990-91, when it was 504
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 710 | 42.7 | 16.6:1 | 49% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 735 | 44.3 | 16.6:1 | 48% (354) |
| 2022-23 | 690 | 39 | 17.7:1 | 48% (334) |
| 2020-21 | 581 | 34 | 17.1:1 | 37% (217) |
| 2017-18 | 570 | 29.9 | 19.1:1 | 32% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 575 | 25 | 23.0:1 | 32% (186) |
| 2010-11 | 609 | 29 | 21.0:1 | 31% (189) |
| 2000-01 | 768 | 36 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 504 | 33 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pope Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 25% (570 to 710); teachers up 43% (29.9 to 42.7).
About Pope Elementary
Pope Elementary is a large elementary school in Washington, located in Puyallup. The student body numbers 710 students, from kindergarten through 6. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Washington is about 380, so this school runs 87% above that.
Pope Elementary is a school in Puyallup School District. The district has 37 schools and 23,026 students.
Enrollment at Pope Elementary is mixed, with White students the largest group at 37%. Other reported shares: 23% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 13% Black, and 9% Asian. That compares with about 64% White among all Pierce County residents. By the diversity index, Pope Elementary comes in at 76%.
The school employs the equivalent of 42.7 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 16.6:1. Elementary schools in Washington average about 17.3:1, a similar figure. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Pope Elementary is 49%. That is close to the 50% average for public schools in Pierce County.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Pope Elementary is 5.2 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 52.5% actual, 47.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Washington.
Census estimates describe Pierce County this way: median household income is about $99,564, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Pierce County number 287 and enroll about 138,462.
The next-closest public school is Warren Hunt Elem, about 0.7 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Pope Elementary. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Pope Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 22%, from 581 to 710.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Puyallup School District
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other schools in Puyallup
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other Pope Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Pope Elementary. Pope Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Pope Elementary SchoolCYPRESS, TX · 997 students
- Pope Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 439 students
Nearby schools
- Warren Hunt Elem0.7 mi · 681
- G W Edgerton Elementary0.9 mi · 753
- Firgrove Elementary1.5 mi · 593
- Ridgecrest Elementary1.6 mi · 456
- Ballou Jr High1.6 mi · 852
- Doris Stahl Junior High1.9 mi · 846
Frequently asked questions
About Pope ElementaryHow many students attend Pope Elementary?
Pope Elementary enrolls approximately 710 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Pope Elementary serve?
Pope Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Pope Elementary have?
Pope Elementary employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
How diverse is Pope Elementary?
Pope Elementary reports a student body of 37% White, 23% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% Asian, 15% Two or more.
What district is Pope Elementary in?
Pope Elementary is part of Puyallup School District.
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