Puyallup Open Doors/POD

Puyallup Open Doors/POD operates as a very small 9-12 campus in Puyallup, Washington, overseen by Puyallup School District. Current enrollment sits at 124 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 78% leaner than the state mean of about 573.

Puyallup Open Doors/POD is one of 37 schools operated by Puyallup School District, a district that works with 23,026 students overall.

On demographics, Puyallup Open Doors/POD shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 3% Pacific Islander. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 31.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Puyallup Open Doors/POD qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Puyallup Open Doors/POD is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Puyallup Parent Partnership Program, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Puyallup Open Doors/POD.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Puyallup Open Doors/POD has fell 13%, going from 142 students in 2018 to 124 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 42.3:1 in 2018 to 31.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Puyallup Open Doors/POD community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.