Tumwater Hill Elementary

Tumwater Hill Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in Tumwater, Washington, operated by Tumwater School District, with 400 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Tumwater School District comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,350 students; Tumwater Hill Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Tumwater Hill Elementary logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Thurston County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Tumwater Hill Elementary lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tumwater Hill Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Thurston County shows median household earnings sit near $96,563, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tumwater Hill Elementary is one of 86 public schools in Thurston County (combined enrollment of about 44,412 students).

Thurs Co Juv Det/Tumwater West E is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tumwater Hill Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tumwater Hill Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tumwater Hill Elementary has declined 5%, going from 422 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 62% to 54% over that span.

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