Enrollment
364
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUYALLUP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530696001043
Wildwood Elementary
1601 26th Ave SE, Puyallup, WA 98374 · (253) 841-8746 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL364 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
223 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 20% larger than its 6th grade class (49).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
49.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.3pp since 2014
Math
47.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +6.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 47.1% |
| 2023-24 | 51.3% | 48.7% |
| 2022-23 | 49.0% | 45.3% |
| 2021-22 | 46.4% | 41.5% |
| 2018-19 | 49.2% | 41.9% |
| 2017-18 | 54.4% | 45.0% |
| 2016-17 | 49.0% | 45.6% |
| 2015-16 | 55.2% | 52.0% |
| 2014-15 | 49.2% | 40.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 12 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Wildwood Elementary
Wildwood Elementary's state test result (51.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildwood Elementary this school | 364 | 61.3% | 51.3% |
| Skyline Elementary School Tacoma | 329 | 53.2% | 49.3% |
| Sunset Elementary School Vancouver | 415 | 55.9% | N/A |
| Jefferson Elementary Pullman | 335 | 56.7% | 42.6% |
| Leland P Brown Elementary OLYMPIA | 328 | 60.7% | 45.4% |
| Julia Butler Hansen Elementary OLYMPIA | 412 | 53.6% | 44.1% |
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 Wildwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #404 of 936 | #66 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #491 of 1,103 ▼ 24 | #69 of 142 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #535 of 1,102 ▼ 71 | #76 of 142 ▼ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.1pp | #312 of 928 | #52 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 364 | #762 of 1,268 | #105 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #68 of 1,085 | #3 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #350 of 1,088 | #85 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.3% | #424 of 1,169 | #49 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.0% | #180 of 778 | #14 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
364
-40 (-10%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 598
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 364 | 27.9 | 13.1:1 | 61% (223) |
| 2023-24 | 370 | 26.7 | 13.9:1 | 66% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 362 | 27.2 | 13.3:1 | 62% (226) |
| 2020-21 | 404 | 30 | 13.5:1 | 52% (211) |
| 2017-18 | 492 | 31.6 | 15.6:1 | 51% (250) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | 27 | 18.0:1 | 57% (275) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | 23 | 22.1:1 | 45% (228) |
| 2000-01 | 616 | 32 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 598 | 36 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wildwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (492 to 364); teachers down 12% (31.6 to 27.9).
About Wildwood Elementary
Families in Puyallup, Washington, are served by Wildwood Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 6 attend the school, which enrolls 364 students.
The district, Puyallup School District, has 23,026 students enrolled across 37 schools.
Wildwood Elementary's enrollment is 52% White. The next largest groups are 17% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 9% Black, and 5% Asian. In Pierce County overall, about 64% of residents are White. Wildwood Elementary has a diversity index of 67%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school has about 13.1 students per teacher and 27.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, higher than at this school. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 11 points above the 50% average for public schools in Pierce County.
In Washington, Wildwood Elementary is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.3% compared with a predicted 39.1%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Pierce County show that median household income is about $99,564, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Wildwood Elementary is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County, which together enroll about 138,462 students.
Ferrucci Jr High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 51.3% is above the 51.2% average for nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put Wildwood Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
The 2024-25 enrollment of 364 was 10% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 404.
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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 Puyallup School District
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other schools in Puyallup
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other Wildwood Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 12 states are named Wildwood Elementary. Wildwood Elementary is the 12th largest of the 15.
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolFEDERAL WAY, WA · 598 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolTOMBALL, TX · 819 students
- WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWILDWOOD, FL · 678 students
- WILDWOOD ELEMENTARYSTILLWATER, MN · 648 students
- Wildwood ElementaryYucaipa, CA · 607 students
Nearby schools
- Ferrucci Jr High0.4 mi · 815
- Sunrise Elementary0.9 mi · 724
- Shaw Road Elementary1.3 mi · 615
- Spinning Elementary1.5 mi · 299
- Kalles Junior High1.6 mi · 762
- Meeker Elementary1.9 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About Wildwood ElementaryHow large is Wildwood Elementary?
Wildwood Elementary enrolls approximately 364 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Wildwood Elementary serve?
Wildwood Elementary serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wildwood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wildwood Elementary is approximately 13.1:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Wildwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Wildwood Elementary are roughly 52% White, 17% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Wildwood Elementary in?
Wildwood Elementary is part of Puyallup School District.
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