Enrollment
343
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUYALLUP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530696001031
Stewart Elementary
426 4th Ave NE, Puyallup, WA 98372 · (253) 841-8743 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL343 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of Washington public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
202 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 42 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 40 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 20% larger than its 6th grade class (40).
Student demographics
73%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
48.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.3pp since 2014
Math
36.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -3.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.2% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 38.2% |
| 2022-23 | 40.2% | 29.7% |
| 2021-22 | 33.8% | 30.3% |
| 2018-19 | 52.5% | 44.1% |
| 2017-18 | 59.1% | 47.8% |
| 2016-17 | 59.1% | 52.6% |
| 2015-16 | 55.3% | 46.4% |
| 2014-15 | 52.5% | 39.9% |
% 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
40.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Stewart Elementary
Stewart Elementary's state test result (40.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart Elementary this school | 343 | 58.9% | 40.8% |
| Shoultes Elementary Marysville | 348 | 59.5% | 34.1% |
| Marshall Elementary Marysville | 331 | 58.9% | 25.8% |
| Mill Plain Elementary School Vancouver | 354 | 59.6% | N/A |
| Esquire Hills Elementary Bremerton | 288 | 56.6% | 44.9% |
| Garfield Elementary School OLYMPIA | 314 | 60.5% | 37.9% |
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 Stewart Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #614 of 936 | #98 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #741 of 1,103 ▼ 66 | #103 of 142 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #558 of 1,102 ▲ 136 | #83 of 142 ▲ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.4pp | #77 of 928 | #15 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 343 | #820 of 1,268 | #115 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #197 of 1,085 | #16 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.3% | #180 of 1,088 | #59 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.9% | #466 of 1,169 | #56 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.0% | #740 of 778 | #85 of 91 |
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
343
+14 (+4%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 257
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 343 | 23.9 | 14.3:1 | 59% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 319 | 25.7 | 12.4:1 | 64% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 345 | 24.5 | 14.1:1 | 68% (233) |
| 2020-21 | 329 | 24 | 13.7:1 | 52% (170) |
| 2017-18 | 350 | 25.3 | 13.9:1 | 55% (191) |
| 2015-16 | 352 | 18 | 19.6:1 | 66% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 400 | 19 | 21.1:1 | 42% (167) |
| 2000-01 | 300 | 17 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 257 | 11 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stewart Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (350 to 343); teachers down 5% (25.3 to 23.9).
About Stewart Elementary
Stewart Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Washington, with an address in Puyallup. Classes run from pre-K through 6, and the school has 343 students.
Puyallup School District runs 37 schools with a combined 23,026 students. Stewart Elementary is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Stewart Elementary, at 40%. Enrollment also includes 27% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 10% Pacific Islander, and 7% Asian. Among people living in Pierce County, the White share is about 64%. The school's diversity index is 73%, meaning two students picked at random have a 73% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 23.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Stewart Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.3:1. That is 3.0 students per teacher below the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 59%. Public schools in Pierce County average 50%.
Measured against Washington public elementary schools, Stewart Elementary receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Stewart Elementary is +0.1 points: 40.8% actual, 40.7% predicted.
Census estimates describe Pierce County this way: the median household income is $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Stewart Elementary, Pierce County has 286 other public schools.
The closest public school, PSD Special Services, is about 0.3 miles from Stewart Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Stewart Elementary places 7th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
Federal data place Stewart Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has grown by 14 students since 2020-21, to 343.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Stewart Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 10 states are named Stewart Elementary. Stewart Elementary is the 11th largest of the 13.
- Stewart Elementary SchoolMONTGOMERY, TX · 914 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolHUNTSVILLE, TX · 547 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 502 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolWashington, IA · 457 students
- Stewart ElemSalina, KS · 406 students
Nearby schools
- PSD Special Services0.3 mi · 52
- Kalles Junior High0.5 mi · 762
- Meeker Elementary0.6 mi · 366
- Puyallup High School0.6 mi · 1,815
- Spinning Elementary0.7 mi · 299
- E B Walker High School0.9 mi · 120
Frequently asked questions
About Stewart ElementaryHow many students attend Stewart Elementary?
Stewart Elementary enrolls approximately 343 students in grades PK-06.
Is Stewart Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Stewart Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Stewart Elementary have?
Stewart Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Stewart Elementary?
Student demographics at Stewart Elementary are roughly 40% White, 27% Hispanic, 3% Black, 7% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Stewart Elementary in?
Stewart Elementary is part of Puyallup School District.
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