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Enrollment
650
Middle
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530870001504
Stewart Middle School
5010 S Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA 98408 · (253) 571-2200 · Pierce County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL650 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of Washington public middle schools
- C-Test 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.
- B-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
457 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 223 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 218 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 209 | 32% |
Student demographics
78%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
33.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.5pp since 2014
Math
19.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.1% | 19.8% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 19.8% |
| 2022-23 | 31.9% | 16.7% |
| 2021-22 | 29.3% | 18.4% |
| 2018-19 | 42.5% | 29.2% |
| 2017-18 | 37.3% | 28.5% |
| 2016-17 | 35.5% | 28.7% |
| 2015-16 | 42.8% | 31.6% |
| 2014-15 | 43.6% | 33.6% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Middle School
Stewart Middle School's state test result (26.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart Middle School this school | 650 | 70.3% | 26.7% |
| Baker Middle School Tacoma | 687 | 71.5% | 29.0% |
| Kilo Middle School AUBURN | 669 | 73.7% | 31.1% |
| Explorer Middle School Everett | 777 | 64.9% | 32.3% |
| Morris Ford Middle School Tacoma | 831 | 64.6% | 30.3% |
| Cascade Middle School AUBURN | 966 | 65.2% | 27.9% |
Matched among Washington middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #242 of 294 | #39 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #287 of 357 ▲ 2 | #37 of 45 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #290 of 357 ▲ 14 | #38 of 45 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #133 of 290 | #26 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 650 | #166 of 377 | #21 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #200 of 340 | #16 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.3% | #11 of 340 | #6 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.3% | #62 of 359 | #7 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.4% | #20 of 130 | #4 of 19 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
650
-81 (-11%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 822
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 650 | 33 | 19.7:1 | 70% (457) |
| 2023-24 | 621 | 29 | 21.4:1 | 75% (463) |
| 2022-23 | 627 | 32.6 | 19.2:1 | 70% (440) |
| 2020-21 | 731 | 36 | 20.3:1 | 73% (533) |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 30.9 | 17.2:1 | 77% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 321 | 24 | 13.4:1 | 80% (258) |
| 2010-11 | 539 | 38 | 14.2:1 | 64% (347) |
| 2000-01 | 864 | 51 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 822 | 45 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stewart Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (531 to 650); teachers up 7% (30.9 to 33).
About Stewart Middle School
Stewart Middle School is a medium-sized middle school with an address in Tacoma, Washington. The school reports 650 students in grades 6 through 8.
Within Tacoma School District, Stewart Middle School is one of 66 schools. The district enrolls 28,900 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Stewart Middle School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 32%. Smaller groups are 23% White, 17% multiracial, 14% Asian, and 9% Black. For comparison, the population of Pierce County is roughly 13% Hispanic. Stewart Middle School's diversity index is 78%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.7:1 at Stewart Middle School, with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, middle schools in Washington have 18.9:1, compared with 19.7:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 70% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Pierce County average 50%.
allk12 grades Stewart Middle School a C. The grade compares the school only with Washington public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Stewart Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 26.7% and a predicted 33.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Pierce County, the median household income is $99,564, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. In all, Pierce County has 287 public schools and roughly 138,462 students.
Lyon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around Stewart Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Stewart Middle School ranks 7th of 9 nearby schools, at 26.7% versus a 34.8% average.
Stewart Middle School is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
Enrollment is down 11% from 2020-21, when Stewart Middle School had 731 students, to 2024-25, when it had 650.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- 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
Other schools in Tacoma
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- 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
Other Stewart Middle schools
One other US public school is named Stewart Middle. Stewart Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Stewart Middle SchoolDouglasville, GA · 533 students
Nearby schools
- Lyon Elementary School0.4 mi · 381
- Mann Elementary School0.6 mi · 340
- Fawcett Elementary School0.7 mi · 426
- Sheridan Elementary School0.7 mi · 525
- Whitman Elementary School0.9 mi · 365
- Lincoln High School1.0 mi · 1,556
Frequently asked questions
About Stewart Middle SchoolHow many students attend Stewart Middle School?
Stewart Middle School enrolls approximately 650 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Stewart Middle School serve?
Stewart Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Stewart Middle School?
Approximately 19.7:1 students per teacher at Stewart Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Stewart Middle School?
Student demographics at Stewart Middle School are roughly 23% White, 32% Hispanic, 9% Black, 14% Asian, 17% Two or more.
What district is Stewart Middle School in?
Stewart Middle School is part of Tacoma School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.