Tacoma Online Middle School

As a very small middle school, Tacoma Online Middle School serves students in Tacoma, Washington. Its enrollment is 170 students, spread over grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 577 students for middle schools in Washington.

Tacoma School District is responsible for 66 schools, Tacoma Online Middle School included, with 28,900 students in all.

The student body at Tacoma Online Middle School has no majority group. White students lead at 38%. Other groups make up 22% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 13% Black, and 4% Asian. Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 75, compared with 70 nationally.

Tacoma Online Middle School reports a ratio of 13.8 students per teacher, from 12.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 13.8:1 compares with an average of 18.9:1 for middle schools in Washington. Lunch program data show 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Pierce County averages 50%, lower than here.

The county, Pierce County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $99,564 a year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Pierce County has 287 public schools with about 138,462 students, including Tacoma Online Middle School.

Tacoma Online Middle School's closest public school neighbor is Tacoma Online High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around Tacoma Online Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools.

Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size. NCES lists Tacoma Online Middle School as a virtual school.

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