Enrollment
272
Elementary
DISTRICT 376 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLOVER PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530141000158
Tillicum Elementary School
8514 Maple ST SW, Lakewood, WA 98498 · (253) 583-5370 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Washington public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
217 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
41.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -5.6pp since 2014
Math
28.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -25.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 25 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.8% | 28.1% |
| 2023-24 | 34.4% | 21.6% |
| 2022-23 | 31.6% | 26.3% |
| 2021-22 | 28.7% | 16.4% |
| 2018-19 | 40.7% | 32.0% |
| 2017-18 | 35.2% | 35.2% |
| 2016-17 | 30.2% | 25.1% |
| 2015-16 | 43.9% | 34.4% |
| 2014-15 | 47.4% | 53.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Tillicum Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tillicum Elementary School this school | 272 | 79.8% | 30.9% |
| West Hills S.T.E.M. Academy Bremerton | 283 | 70.7% | 30.7% |
| Fruit Valley Elementary School VANCOUVER | 188 | 79.8% | N/A |
| Washington Elementary VANCOUVER | 244 | 75.0% | N/A |
| Clover Park Early Learning Program Lakewood | 213 | 76.1% | N/A |
| Madison Elementary Everett | 405 | 75.8% | 33.0% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Tillicum Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #788 of 936 | #123 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #908 of 1,103 ▲ 95 | #124 of 142 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #698 of 1,102 ▲ 161 | #98 of 142 ▲ 18 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.4pp | #51 of 928 | #12 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #1,019 of 1,268 | #137 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #325 of 1,085 | #30 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.0% | #190 of 1,088 | #61 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.8% | #119 of 1,169 | #5 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #257 of 778 | #25 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
272
-22 (-7%) vs 2020
-36% since 2000-01, when it was 423
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 272 | 18.2 | 14.9:1 | 80% (217) |
| 2023-24 | 268 | 17.5 | 15.3:1 | 86% (231) |
| 2022-23 | 250 | 17.8 | 14.0:1 | 86% (216) |
| 2020-21 | 294 | 18 | 16.3:1 | 81% (239) |
| 2017-18 | 347 | 22 | 15.8:1 | 88% (304) |
| 2015-16 | 369 | 21 | 17.6:1 | 84% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 300 | 16 | 18.8:1 | 85% (255) |
| 2000-01 | 423 | 24 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tillicum Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (347 to 272); teachers down 17% (22 to 18.2).
About Tillicum Elementary School
Tillicum Elementary School is a small elementary school serving families in Lakewood, Washington. In all, 272 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 28% below the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington.
Clover Park School District enrolls 12,345 students, and its 32 schools include Tillicum Elementary School.
Hispanic students account for 41% of enrollment at Tillicum Elementary School, more than any other group. Other groups include 25% White, 17% multiracial, 7% Black, and 7% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Pierce County residents are about 13% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 73%.
There are 18.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at Tillicum Elementary School, giving a ratio of 14.9:1. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. By family income, 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 50% average among public schools in Pierce County.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Tillicum Elementary School outscored 37%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Tillicum Elementary School is 4.3 points above its prediction. Actual: 30.9%. Predicted: 26.7%.
In Pierce County, the median household earns about $99,564 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Pierce County, 287 public schools serve about 138,462 students.
Evergreen Elementary School is about 0.9 miles from Tillicum Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Tillicum Elementary School ranks 7th on proficiency.
Federal data place Tillicum Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 7%, from 294 to 272. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 14.9:1, from 16.3:1.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clover Park School District
- Clover Park High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Lakes High SchoolHigh · 1,158 students
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 934 students
- General William H. Harrison Preparatory SchoolHigh · 738 students
- Rainier Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
Other schools in Lakewood
- Clover Park High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Lakes High SchoolHigh · 1,158 students
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 934 students
- General William H. Harrison Preparatory SchoolHigh · 738 students
- Hudtloff Middle SchoolMiddle · 555 students
- Four Heroes ElementaryElementary · 541 students
Nearby schools
- Evergreen Elementary School0.9 mi · 442
- Carter Lake Elementary School1.5 mi · 420
- Beachwood Elementary School1.6 mi · 397
- Hillside Elementary School1.7 mi · 567
- Meriwether Elementary School1.9 mi · 240
- Re-Entry High School2.1 mi · 5
Frequently asked questions
About Tillicum Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Tillicum Elementary School?
Tillicum Elementary School enrolls approximately 272 students in grades PK-05.
Is Tillicum Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Tillicum Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Tillicum Elementary School have?
Tillicum Elementary School employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Tillicum Elementary School?
At Tillicum Elementary School, the student body is approximately 25% White, 41% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Is Tillicum Elementary School public or private?
Tillicum Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clover Park School District.
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