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How has Voyager Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
443
Elementary
DISTRICT 405 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENINSULA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530669002266
Voyager Elementary
10615 Kopachuck Dr NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335 · (253) 530-4800 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL443 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of Washington public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
16.7:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
54 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
69.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -9.8pp since 2014
Math
68.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -8.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.2% | 68.3% |
| 2023-24 | 69.9% | 65.5% |
| 2022-23 | 67.9% | 65.5% |
| 2021-22 | 73.3% | 68.8% |
| 2018-19 | 75.5% | 74.8% |
| 2017-18 | 79.6% | 75.9% |
| 2016-17 | 79.9% | 77.4% |
| 2015-16 | 82.6% | 81.9% |
| 2014-15 | 79.0% | 76.8% |
% 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
70.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Voyager Elementary
Voyager Elementary's state test result (70.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voyager Elementary this school | 443 | 12.2% | 70.3% |
| Pioneer Elementary School Gig Harbor | 481 | 13.3% | 67.2% |
| Artondale Elementary School Gig Harbor | 413 | 16.7% | 68.0% |
| North Bend Elementary School NORTH BEND | 466 | 13.7% | 73.0% |
| Capt Johnston Blakely Elem Sch Bainbridge Island | 356 | 12.9% | 86.9% |
| Skyline Elementary Spokane | 412 | 17.0% | 74.1% |
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 Voyager Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #134 of 936 | #12 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.3% | #146 of 1,103 ▲ 31 | #16 of 142 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #171 of 1,102 ▼ 20 | #22 of 142 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.3pp | #262 of 928 | #45 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 443 | #471 of 1,268 | #68 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #754 of 1,085 | #92 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.0% | #992 of 1,088 | #141 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.2% | #1,107 of 1,169 | #148 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #125 of 778 | #8 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
443
-37 (-8%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 480
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 443 | 26.5 | 16.7:1 | 12% (54) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 28.5 | 16.4:1 | 12% (58) |
| 2022-23 | 457 | 28.9 | 15.8:1 | 13% (58) |
| 2020-21 | 480 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 10% (50) |
| 2017-18 | 629 | 38.1 | 16.5:1 | 13% (84) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 26 | 19.4:1 | 16% (78) |
| 2010-11 | 480 | 22 | 21.8:1 | 13% (60) |
| 2000-01 | 527 | 25 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 480 | 19 | 25.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Voyager Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (629 to 443); teachers down 31% (38.1 to 26.5).
About Voyager Elementary
Students in Gig Harbor, Washington, attend Voyager Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 443 students across kindergarten through 5.
The district for Voyager Elementary is Peninsula School District, with 17 schools and 9,015 students.
Most students at Voyager Elementary are White: 81% of enrollment. Other students are 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. That is higher than the 64% White share among all Pierce County residents. Voyager Elementary has a diversity index of 33%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Voyager Elementary counts 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 16.7 students for each one. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average ratio is about 17.3:1. About 12% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. For comparison, public schools in Pierce County average 50%.
Voyager Elementary is graded B by allk12, scoring above 60% of Washington public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at Voyager Elementary are 1.7 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (70.3% actual, 72.0% predicted).
County data help place the school in context: in Pierce County, median household income is about $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The public schools of Pierce County number 287 and enroll about 138,462.
Kopachuck Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Voyager Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Voyager Elementary is Suburb: Large.
Voyager Elementary saw enrollment fall 8% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 16.7 students per teacher, compared with 14.6 in 2020-21.
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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 Peninsula School District
- Gig Harbor HighHigh · 1,375 students
- Peninsula High SchoolHigh · 1,345 students
- Harbor Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Goodman Middle SchoolMiddle · 519 students
- Swift Water ElementaryElementary · 519 students
- Kopachuck Middle SchoolMiddle · 516 students
Other schools in Gig Harbor
- Gig Harbor HighHigh · 1,375 students
- Peninsula High SchoolHigh · 1,345 students
- Harbor Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Goodman Middle SchoolMiddle · 519 students
- Swift Water ElementaryElementary · 519 students
- Kopachuck Middle SchoolMiddle · 516 students
Other Voyager Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Voyager Elementary. Voyager Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Voyager Elementary SchoolHOWELL, MI · 517 students
- Voyager ElementaryALEXANDRIA, MN · 446 students
Nearby schools
- Kopachuck Middle School0.3 mi · 516
- Artondale Elementary School2.8 mi · 413
- Gig Harbor High3.7 mi · 1,375
- Key Peninsula Middle School3.8 mi · 444
- Discovery Elementary School3.8 mi · 380
- Henderson Bay Alt High School3.9 mi · 139
Frequently asked questions
About Voyager ElementaryHow large is Voyager Elementary?
Voyager Elementary enrolls approximately 443 students in grades KG-05.
Is Voyager Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Voyager Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Voyager Elementary?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Voyager Elementary.
How diverse is Voyager Elementary?
Voyager Elementary reports a student body of 81% White, 7% Hispanic, 0% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Voyager Elementary?
Voyager Elementary is overseen by Peninsula School District in Pierce County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.