Enrollment
110
High
STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOL: OLYMPUS·NCES 530033303541
Summit Public School: Olympus
409 Puyallup Ave, Tacoma, WA 98421 · (253) 444-9781 · Pierce County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL110 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Washington public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.0:1
11 FTE teachers
STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
64 students
STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 18 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 33 | 30% |
| Grade 11 | 28 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 31 | 28% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
41.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.6pp since 2017
Math
9.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -10.3pp since 2017
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 14 points since 2017, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.9% | 9.7% |
| 2023-24 | 57.6% | 12.1% |
| 2022-23 | 57.1% | 17.1% |
| 2021-22 | 49.1% | 7.3% |
| 2018-19 | 73.7% | 42.1% |
| 2017-18 | 55.6% | 20.0% |
% 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
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% 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 Summit Public School: Olympus
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Public School: Olympus this school | 110 | 58.2% | 32.2% |
| Echo Glen School SNOQUALMIE | 104 | 67.3% | N/A |
| Green Hill Academic School Chehalis | 163 | 52.8% | N/A |
| Rooted School Washington Vancouver | 58 | 58.6% | N/A |
| Foss High School Tacoma | 599 | 69.4% | 19.5% |
| Middle College High School SEATTLE | 93 | 47.3% | 52.6% |
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 Summit Public School: Olympus ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #219 of 271 | #28 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.7% | #310 of 321 ▼ 24 | #31 of 32 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #268 of 327 ▼ 86 | #28 of 33 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.4pp | #100 of 259 | #11 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 110 | #377 of 570 | #39 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.2% | #137 of 386 | #15 of 39 |
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
110
-84 (-43%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 110 | 11 | 10.0:1 | 58% (64) |
| 2023-24 | 148 | 10 | 14.8:1 | 66% (98) |
| 2022-23 | 156 | 11.5 | 13.5:1 | 63% (99) |
| 2020-21 | 194 | 12 | 16.2:1 | 56% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 167 | 11 | 15.2:1 | 56% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 103 | 6 | 17.2:1 | 65% (67) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Summit Public School: Olympus.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (167 to 110); teachers unchanged (11 to 11).
About Summit Public School: Olympus
Students in Tacoma, Washington, attend Summit Public School: Olympus, a small high school. The school counts 110 students across grades 9 through 12. The school's enrollment is 81% smaller than the 573 average for high schools in Washington.
In federal data, the district for Summit Public School: Olympus is the school itself.
Summit Public School: Olympus's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 38%. Other students are 25% multiracial, 19% Black, 13% White, and 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Pierce County residents are about 13% Hispanic. Summit Public School: Olympus has a diversity index of 73%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Summit Public School: Olympus's 11 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 10.0:1. For comparison, high schools in Washington average 21.6:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 58%.
Summit Public School: Olympus is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of Washington public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Summit Public School: Olympus is 9.0 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (32.2% versus 41.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
Among Pierce County residents, median household income is about $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 287 public schools in Pierce County, with a combined enrollment of about 138,462.
Of nearby public schools, Tacoma Open Doors is the closest, at about 0.7 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 5 nearby schools with scores, Summit Public School: Olympus ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Summit Public School: Olympus is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.
Enrollment records show 194 in 2020-21 and 110 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.2:1 to 10.0:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About Summit Public School: OlympusWhat is the total enrollment at Summit Public School: Olympus?
Summit Public School: Olympus enrolls approximately 110 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Summit Public School: Olympus serve?
Summit Public School: Olympus serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Summit Public School: Olympus?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Summit Public School: Olympus is approximately 10.0:1 (11 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Summit Public School: Olympus?
At Summit Public School: Olympus, the student body is approximately 13% White, 38% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Asian, 25% Two or more.
Is Summit Public School: Olympus public or private?
Summit Public School: Olympus is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Summit Public School: Olympus.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.