Tacoma Online Elementary School

Tacoma Online Elementary School is an elementary school of rural-scale scale in Tacoma, Washington, operated by Tacoma School District, teacheing 144 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Tacoma Online Elementary School sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Tacoma School District, which oversees 66 schools and 28,900 students, Tacoma Online Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Tacoma Online Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (26%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 24% White, 19% Black, 19% multiracial, 6% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 13% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Tacoma Online Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

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%. Tacoma Online Elementary School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Tacoma Online High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

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