# Christensen Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530294000472`
- **School name**: Christensen Elementary
- **Location**: Tacoma, WA 98444
- **Address**: 10232 Barnes Lane S
- **District**: Franklin Pierce School District (LEAID `5302940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 47.16350, -122.44650
- **Phone**: (253)298-3305

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 346
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 2
  - proficiency_math_decile: 3
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 2.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 5
  - growth_math_decile: 3
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 4
  - el_progress_decile: 9
  - regularattendance_decile: 3
  - sqss_combined_decile: 3
  - _2025_score: 3.6
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 48.9% (197 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.5%
- **Black/African American**: 3.2%
- **Asian**: 15.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 21.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 12.9%
- **Two or more races**: 16.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.1% — 45 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 8 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,640
- **Federal share**: $1,042
- **State + local share**: $18,598
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 349
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,120,493
- **Federal share**: 13.5%
- **State share**: 64.5%
- **Local share**: 22.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,639,714

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,688
- **Poverty rate**: 13.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.1%
- **Unemployment**: 10.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,658
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (LAKEWOOD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.99 miles (HERITAGE BANK)

### 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**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **James Sales Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 48.82% (this school: 48.88%)
- **Helen Stafford Elementary School** — 0.9 mi away, 44.57% (this school: 48.88%)
- **Washington High School** — 1.4 mi away, 36.24% (this school: 48.88%)
- **Birney Elementary School** — 1.7 mi away, 39.9% (this school: 48.88%)
- **Gates Secondary School** — 1.8 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 48.88%)

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