Rainier Elementary School

As an expansive elementary school in JBLM Lewis Main, Washington, Rainier Elementary School instructs 576 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Clover Park School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Rainier Elementary School sits 52% above that benchmark.

Clover Park School District comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 12,345 students; Rainier Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Rainier Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Rainier Elementary School shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Rainier Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of +10.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pierce County) reports that 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%. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Rainier Elementary School is one.

Chloe Clark Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rainier Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rainier Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Rainier Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 17% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 576). Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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