Tacoma Open Doors

Set in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Open Doors is a tight-knit secondary school, one of the schools within Tacoma School District. It teaches 392 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so Tacoma Open Doors sits 32% below that benchmark.

Tacoma School District comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 28,900 students; Tacoma Open Doors is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tacoma Open Doors reports that the most-represented group is White (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 25% Hispanic, 21% Black, 14% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 75.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Pierce County put median household earnings sit near $99,564, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Pierce County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), of which Tacoma Open Doors is one.

Edna Travis Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Tacoma Open Doors's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 382 (now 392). The White share of enrollment contracted from 44% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 68.2:1 in 2018 to 75.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Tacoma Open Doors typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.