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Enrollment
1,412
High
DISTRICT 711 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282003154
Todd Beamer High School
35999 16TH AV S, FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 · (253) 945-2570 · King County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,412 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Washington public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.6:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
1,028 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 336 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 350 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 347 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 379 | 27% |
Student demographics
80%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
35.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +22.8pp since 2014
Math
11.2%
WA avg 51.2% . +6.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 23 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.7% | 11.2% |
| 2023-24 | 48.1% | 14.3% |
| 2022-23 | 42.3% | 16.6% |
| 2021-22 | 39.4% | 11.6% |
| 2018-19 | 49.6% | 21.9% |
| 2017-18 | 61.0% | 24.1% |
| 2016-17 | 4.0% | 8.8% |
| 2015-16 | 11.8% | 12.8% |
| 2014-15 | 12.9% | 4.3% |
% 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
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Todd Beamer High School
Todd Beamer High School's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Todd Beamer High School this school | 1,412 | 72.8% | 25.9% |
| Lincoln High School Tacoma | 1,556 | 72.7% | 22.3% |
| Federal Way High School FEDERAL WAY | 1,665 | 73.8% | 22.5% |
| Mount Tahoma High School Tacoma | 1,410 | 69.6% | 24.9% |
| Thomas Jefferson High School AUBURN | 1,810 | 71.9% | 22.7% |
| Kent-Meridian High School Kent | 1,639 | 68.9% | 24.6% |
Matched among Washington high 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 Todd Beamer High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #246 of 271 | #49 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.2% | #303 of 321 ▼ 34 | #56 of 59 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.7% | #291 of 327 ▼ 49 | #53 of 61 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #109 of 259 | #24 of 57 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,412 | #102 of 570 | #36 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.5:1 | #204 of 311 | #41 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 80.1% | #3 of 316 | #1 of 67 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.8% | #48 of 386 | #8 of 76 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #51 of 164 | #16 of 34 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,412
-4 (0%) vs 2020
-22% since 2010-11, when it was 1,810
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
was 21.1:1
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 | 1,412 | 65.6 | 21.5:1 | 73% (1,028) |
| 2023-24 | 1,413 | 67.8 | 20.9:1 | 76% (1,070) |
| 2022-23 | 1,302 | 66.1 | 19.7:1 | 71% (918) |
| 2020-21 | 1,416 | 67 | 21.1:1 | 61% (865) |
| 2017-18 | 1,606 | 76.3 | 21.1:1 | 52% (828) |
| 2015-16 | 1,717 | 75 | 22.9:1 | 53% (912) |
| 2010-11 | 1,810 | 80 | 22.6:1 | 30% (543) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Todd Beamer High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (1,606 to 1,412); teachers down 14% (76.3 to 65.6).
About Todd Beamer High School
Todd Beamer High School is a large high school in FEDERAL WAY, Washington. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 1,412 students enrolled. That is 146% bigger than the average of about 573 students for high schools in Washington.
Federal Way School District runs Todd Beamer High School along with 42 other schools, enrolling 22,250 students in total.
Hispanic students make up 30% of enrollment at Todd Beamer High School, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 19% White, 17% Black, 15% Asian, and 11% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of King County's population at about 11%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 80, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 65.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 21.5 students per teacher. The average for high schools in Washington is about 21.6:1. Todd Beamer High School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 73%. The average for public schools in King County is 38%.
Todd Beamer High School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 16% of Washington public high schools.
Todd Beamer High School is 5.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (25.9% versus 31.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
In King County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Todd Beamer High School, King County has 544 public schools.
Todd Beamer High School's closest public school neighbor is Illahee Middle School, about 1.0 miles away. The five-mile area around Todd Beamer High School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Todd Beamer High School at 5th of 9.
The NCES locale for Todd Beamer High School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Todd Beamer High School was 1,416 in 2020-21 and 1,412 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
The allk12 page for Todd Beamer High School lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
Other schools in FEDERAL WAY
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Illahee Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Lakota Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 598 students
Nearby schools
- Illahee Middle School1.0 mi · 655
- Lakeland Elementary School1.0 mi · 418
- Federal Way Public Academy1.0 mi · 309
- Rainier View Elementary School1.0 mi · 495
- Sequoyah Middle School1.3 mi · 570
- Enterprise Elementary School1.4 mi · 450
Frequently asked questions
About Todd Beamer High SchoolHow large is Todd Beamer High School?
Todd Beamer High School enrolls approximately 1,412 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Todd Beamer High School serve?
Todd Beamer High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Todd Beamer High School?
Approximately 21.5:1 students per teacher at Todd Beamer High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Todd Beamer High School?
At Todd Beamer High School, the student body is approximately 19% White, 30% Hispanic, 17% Black, 15% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Todd Beamer High School?
Todd Beamer High School is overseen by Federal Way School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.