Weyerhaeuser Elementary

Weyerhaeuser Elementary is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Eatonville, Washington, overseen by Eatonville School District, with 344 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Weyerhaeuser Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Eatonville School District, a district that serves 1,995 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Weyerhaeuser Elementary logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Weyerhaeuser Elementary shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Weyerhaeuser Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Weyerhaeuser Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,564 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Weyerhaeuser Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ESD New Beginnings, roughly 5.4 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Weyerhaeuser Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 26%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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