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What's the most underrated thing about Stadium High School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,700
High
DISTRICT 656 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530870001502
Stadium High School
111 N E St, Tacoma, WA 98403 · (253) 571-3100 · Pierce County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,700 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of Washington public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
23.5:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.5:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
649 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 9 | 462 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 413 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 448 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 377 | 22% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
63.3%
WA avg 58.4% . +55.1pp since 2014
Math
35.5%
WA avg 51.2% . +30.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 55 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 31 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.3% | 35.5% |
| 2023-24 | 68.2% | 30.6% |
| 2022-23 | 75.8% | 39.6% |
| 2021-22 | 69.1% | 34.4% |
| 2018-19 | 70.8% | 43.6% |
| 2017-18 | 74.9% | 50.9% |
| 2016-17 | 14.3% | 29.9% |
| 2015-16 | 4.2% | 14.7% |
| 2014-15 | 8.2% | 4.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Stadium High School
Stadium High School's state test result (36.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stadium High School this school | 1,700 | 38.2% | 36.5% |
| Puyallup High School Puyallup | 1,815 | 40.4% | 52.5% |
| Edmonds Woodway High School EDMONDS | 1,605 | 39.6% | 43.4% |
| Timberline High School Lacey | 1,401 | 40.9% | 42.4% |
| Oak Harbor High School Oak Harbor | 1,562 | 38.6% | 45.6% |
| Capital High School OLYMPIA | 1,322 | 37.7% | 44.9% |
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 Stadium High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #184 of 271 | #20 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #104 of 321 ▲ 32 | #9 of 32 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #122 of 327 ▼ 21 | #13 of 33 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.3pp | #103 of 259 | #12 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,700 | #48 of 570 | #6 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.5:1 | #273 of 311 | #25 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.7% | #70 of 316 | #21 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.2% | #283 of 386 | #29 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.5% | #35 of 136 | #4 of 17 |
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
1,700
+171 (+11%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 1,340
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
was 22.5:1
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 | 1,700 | 72.5 | 23.5:1 | 38% (649) |
| 2023-24 | 1,609 | 70.8 | 22.7:1 | 41% (654) |
| 2022-23 | 1,571 | 67.2 | 23.4:1 | 36% (565) |
| 2020-21 | 1,529 | 68 | 22.5:1 | 33% (503) |
| 2017-18 | 1,459 | 63.4 | 23.0:1 | 31% (451) |
| 2015-16 | 1,558 | 69 | 22.6:1 | 35% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 1,619 | 79 | 20.5:1 | 24% (383) |
| 2000-01 | 1,898 | 79 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,340 | 62 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stadium High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (1,459 to 1,700); teachers up 14% (63.4 to 72.5).
About Stadium High School
Stadium High School is a large high school with an address in Tacoma, Washington. It teaches 1,700 students in grades 9 through 12. It has 197% more students than the average for high schools in Washington (about 573).
Tacoma School District has a total of 66 schools and 28,900 students, Stadium High School among them.
White students make up 48% of enrollment at Stadium High School, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 9% Asian, and 7% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Pierce County's population at about 64%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 70%.
A staff of 72.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 23.5:1. The average for high schools in Washington, 21.6:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 38%. The average for public schools in Pierce County is 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, Stadium High School lands at D, ahead of 12% of Washington public high schools.
Stadium High School ranks in the bottom 10% of Washington schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 36.5%. Predicted: 54.6%. Difference: 18.1 points.
In Pierce County, home to about 930,319 people, median household income comes to about $99,564, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 287 public schools in the county, enrolling about 138,462, Stadium High School among them.
Of the public schools around it, Stadium High School is closest to Special Services, about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 41.9%; Stadium High School's is 36.5%, ranking 5th of 6.
NCES assigns Stadium High School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,700, compared with 1,529 in 2020-21.
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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 Tacoma School District
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 687 students
- Tacoma School of the ArtsHigh · 658 students
- Stewart Middle SchoolMiddle · 650 students
Other schools in Tacoma
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Washington High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Franklin Pierce High SchoolHigh · 977 students
- Fife High SchoolHigh · 885 students
Nearby schools
- Special Services0.7 mi · 9
- Comm Based Trans Program0.7 mi · 71
- Lowell Elementary School0.8 mi · 331
- Tacoma School of the Arts0.9 mi · 658
- Bates Technical High School1.0 mi · 343
- Bryant Montessori Middle School1.0 mi · 135
Frequently asked questions
About Stadium High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Stadium High School?
Stadium High School enrolls approximately 1,700 students in grades 09-12.
Is Stadium High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Stadium High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Stadium High School?
Approximately 23.5:1 students per teacher at Stadium High School.
How diverse is Stadium High School?
Stadium High School reports a student body of 48% White, 18% Hispanic, 7% Black, 9% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Stadium High School?
Stadium High School is overseen by Tacoma School District in Pierce County.
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