Tacoma Online High School

As a moderately sized high school in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Online High School serves 497 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Tacoma School District.

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

Looking at the student body, Tacoma Online High School logs that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, 12% Black, 5% Asian. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pierce County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Tacoma Online High School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tacoma Online Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tacoma Online High School.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

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