# Custer Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530141000251`
- **School name**: Custer Elementary School
- **Location**: Lakewood, WA 98498
- **Address**: 7801 Steilacoom Blvd SW
- **District**: Clover Park School District (LEAID `5301410`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 47.18070, -122.54060
- **Phone**: (253)583-5230

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 358
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 3
  - proficiency_math_decile: 4
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 3.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 4
  - growth_math_decile: 3
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 3.5
  - el_progress_decile: 9
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - sqss_combined_decile: 1
  - _2025_score: 3.65
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.1% (107 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 27.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 27.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 6.4%
- **Two or more races**: 6.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 33.0% — 88 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,154
- **Federal share**: $1,819
- **State + local share**: $25,334
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 267
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,336,369
- **Federal share**: 20.3%
- **State share**: 65.9%
- **Local share**: 13.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,094,069

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,977
- **Poverty rate**: 15.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,662
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.9 miles (LAKEWOOD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.64 miles (8328 8330 SOUTH TACOMA WAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKEWOOD WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.14643 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hudtloff Middle School** — 0.2 mi away, 21.13% (this school: 40.07%)
- **Oakbrook Elementary School** — 0.5 mi away, 14.29% (this school: 40.07%)
- **Dower Elementary School** — 0.9 mi away, 30.28% (this school: 40.07%)
- **Idlewild Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 27.77% (this school: 40.07%)
- **Four Heroes Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 37.35% (this school: 40.07%)

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