Wildwood Elementary

Wildwood Elementary is an average-sized primary school in Puyallup, Washington, overseen by Puyallup School District. The school enrolls 364 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 37 schools in Puyallup School District (23,026 students total), Wildwood Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Wildwood Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 9% Black, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Wildwood Elementary reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at Wildwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Pierce County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wildwood Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 39.1%; Wildwood Elementary posts 51.3%, +12.2 points above that line.

Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Wildwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ferrucci Jr High, roughly 0.4 miles away. 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), Wildwood Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Wildwood Elementary's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 492 (now 364). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 25% to 17%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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