Tillicum Elementary School

Tillicum Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary-level communitys in Lakewood, Washington, overseen by Clover Park School District, with 272 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Tillicum Elementary School sits 28% below that benchmark.

Within Clover Park School District, which oversees 32 schools and 12,345 students, Tillicum Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Tillicum Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 25% White, 17% multiracial, 7% Black, 7% Pacific Islander. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tillicum Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.9%.

In the area at large, Pierce County reports that median household earnings sit near $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Tillicum Elementary School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students).

Evergreen Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tillicum Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Tillicum Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tillicum Elementary School has edged down 22%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 272 in 2025.

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