# Birney Elementary School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530870001455`
- **School name**: Birney Elementary School
- **Location**: Tacoma, WA 98408
- **Address**: 7627 South Sheridan Ave
- **District**: Tacoma School District (LEAID `5308700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 47.18720, -122.45193
- **Phone**: (253)571-4600

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 476
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 2
  - proficiency_math_decile: 2
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 2
  - growth_ela_decile: 4
  - growth_math_decile: 6
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 5
  - el_progress_decile: 9
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - sqss_combined_decile: 1
  - _2025_score: 3.8
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 39.9% (164 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2023
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 10

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.4%
- **Black/African American**: 10.8%
- **Asian**: 13.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 24.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 8.7%
- **Two or more races**: 15.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.1% — 91 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Hearing Impairment**: 20 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,598
- **Federal share**: $3,293
- **State + local share**: $20,305
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 467
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,807,051
- **Federal share**: 12.8%
- **State share**: 57.0%
- **Local share**: 30.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,762,554

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,985
- **Poverty rate**: 10.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.3%
- **Unemployment**: 12.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,482
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (COMMENCEMENT BAY SOUTH TACOMA CHANNEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 28
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.57 miles (8328 8330 SOUTH TACOMA WAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TACOMA WATER DIVISION CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.14643 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Industrial Design Engineering and Arts** — 0.8 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Fawcett Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 39.14% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Edison Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 36.04% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Gray Middle School** — 2.0 mi away, 34.24% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Sheridan Elementary School** — 2.1 mi away, 39.71% (this school: 39.9%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/birney-elementary-school-tacoma/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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