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If you had an hour of school board time for Puyallup High School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
1,815
High
DISTRICT 1,089 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUYALLUP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530696001038
Puyallup High School
105 Seventh St SW, Puyallup, WA 98371 · (253) 841-8711 · Pierce County
GRADES 10–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,815 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Washington public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
24.5:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.0:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
734 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 10 | 659 | 36% |
| Grade 11 | 568 | 31% |
| Grade 12 | 588 | 32% |
Student demographics
67%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
72.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +53.7pp since 2014
Math
33.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +19.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 54 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 19 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.7% | 33.1% |
| 2023-24 | 72.6% | 33.7% |
| 2022-23 | 70.8% | 31.7% |
| 2021-22 | 74.7% | 37.1% |
| 2018-19 | 81.4% | 51.2% |
| 2017-18 | 76.7% | 46.2% |
| 2016-17 | 23.9% | 41.5% |
| 2015-16 | 37.9% | 31.8% |
| 2014-15 | 19.0% | 13.8% |
% 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
53.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Puyallup High School
Puyallup High School's state test result (52.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puyallup High School this school | 1,815 | 40.4% | 52.5% |
| Oak Harbor High School Oak Harbor | 1,562 | 38.6% | 45.6% |
| Timberline High School Lacey | 1,401 | 40.9% | 42.4% |
| Stadium High School Tacoma | 1,700 | 38.2% | 36.5% |
| Capital High School OLYMPIA | 1,322 | 37.7% | 44.9% |
| Marysville Getchell High School Marysville | 1,381 | 44.2% | 35.6% |
Matched among Washington high 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 Puyallup High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.5% | #61 of 271 | #8 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #124 of 321 ▼ 14 | #11 of 32 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.7% | #67 of 327 ▼ 1 | #7 of 33 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #88 of 259 | #9 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,815 | #39 of 570 | #3 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.5:1 | #293 of 311 | #31 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.4% | #90 of 316 | #24 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.4% | #268 of 386 | #27 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.4% | #161 of 164 | #15 of 15 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,815
+13 (+1%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 1,405
Student : Teacher
24.5:1
was 25.7:1
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 | 1,815 | 74.1 | 24.5:1 | 40% (734) |
| 2023-24 | 1,698 | 71.8 | 23.6:1 | 38% (638) |
| 2022-23 | 1,701 | 72.5 | 23.5:1 | 38% (654) |
| 2020-21 | 1,802 | 70 | 25.7:1 | 28% (511) |
| 2017-18 | 1,822 | 78.1 | 23.3:1 | 27% (501) |
| 2015-16 | 1,752 | 71 | 24.7:1 | 30% (529) |
| 2010-11 | 1,577 | 65 | 24.3:1 | 23% (368) |
| 2000-01 | 1,662 | 88 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,405 | 72 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Puyallup High School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (1,822 to 1,815); teachers down 5% (78.1 to 74.1).
About Puyallup High School
Students in Puyallup, Washington, attend Puyallup High School, a large high school. It enrolled 1,815 students in grades 10 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 217% higher than the average for high schools in Washington, which is about 573.
Puyallup School District oversees Puyallup High School and 36 other schools, with 23,026 students in total.
A majority of students at Puyallup High School, 51%, are White. Next come 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 5% Black. The county population is about 64% White. Puyallup High School has a diversity index of 67%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 24.5:1, with 74.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among high schools in Washington, the typical ratio is 21.6:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Puyallup High School is 40%. On average, public schools in Pierce County report 50%.
allk12 grades Puyallup High School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Washington public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Puyallup High School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 52.5% is within a point of the 53.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Federal survey data for Pierce County show that median household income is about $99,564, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. A total of 287 public schools operate in Pierce County, serving about 138,462 students.
The nearest other public school, Meeker Elementary, is about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 46.0%; Puyallup High School's is 52.5%, ranking 2nd of 8.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,815, close to the 1,802 recorded in 2020-21. Students per teacher fell from 25.7 in 2020-21 to 24.5 in 2024-25.
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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
- 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
- Glacier View Junior HighMiddle · 843 students
Other schools in Puyallup
- 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
- Glacier View Junior HighMiddle · 843 students
Nearby schools
- Meeker Elementary0.3 mi · 366
- PSD Special Services0.3 mi · 52
- Maplewood Elementary0.4 mi · 371
- Aylen Jr High0.5 mi · 720
- Stewart Elementary0.6 mi · 343
- Karshner Elementary0.7 mi · 405
Frequently asked questions
About Puyallup High SchoolHow many students attend Puyallup High School?
Puyallup High School enrolls approximately 1,815 students in grades 10-12.
What grades does Puyallup High School serve?
Puyallup High School serves grades 10-12.
How many students per teacher at Puyallup High School?
Approximately 24.5:1 students per teacher at Puyallup High School.
How diverse is Puyallup High School?
Puyallup High School reports a student body of 51% White, 19% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Puyallup High School?
Puyallup High School is overseen by Puyallup School District in Pierce County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.