Voyager Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Gig Harbor, Washington, Voyager Elementary enrolls 443 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Peninsula School District.

Within Peninsula School District, which oversees 17 schools and 9,015 students, Voyager Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Voyager Elementary lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Voyager Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.0%, the actual is 70.3%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the broader community, Pierce County reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Voyager Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kopachuck Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Voyager Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 63.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Voyager Elementary's enrollment has contracted 30% since 2018, when it stood at 629 (now 443).

On this page, members of the Voyager Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.