Stewart Middle School

Located at 5010 S Pacific Ave, in Tacoma, Washington, Stewart Middle School is a mid-tier 6-8 campus that educates 650 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Tacoma School District.

Stewart Middle School is one of 66 schools operated by Tacoma School District, a district that caters to 28,900 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stewart Middle School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 23% White, 17% multiracial, 14% Asian, 9% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Stewart Middle School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at Stewart Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stewart Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 26.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Pierce County shows median household earnings sit near $99,564, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Stewart Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lyon Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stewart Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Stewart Middle School's enrollment has edged up 22% since 2018, when it stood at 531 (now 650). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 18% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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