# Downing Elementary School

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530870001461`
- **School name**: Downing Elementary School
- **Location**: Tacoma, WA 98406
- **Address**: 5130 N. 26th Street
- **District**: Tacoma School District (LEAID `5308700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 47.27042, -122.50716
- **Phone**: (253)571-7100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 298
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 8
  - proficiency_math_decile: 9
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 8.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 4
  - growth_math_decile: 9
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 6.5
  - regularattendance_decile: 5
  - sqss_combined_decile: 5
  - _2025_score: 7.23
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.4% (31 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 5
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.6%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 7.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 54.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 18.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 54.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 46 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,124
- **Federal share**: $1,909
- **State + local share**: $21,215
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 268
### 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**: $100,417
- **Poverty rate**: 8.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,690
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (COMMENCEMENT BAY SOUTH TACOMA CHANNEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.75 miles (HAPPY DRAGON AKA ASAIN CUISINE AND 6TH ALDER)

### 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**: 4.67506 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Washington Elementary School** — 1.0 mi away, 10.47% (this school: 11.36%)
- **Comm Based Trans Program** — 3.0 mi away, 10.45% (this school: 11.36%)
- **University Place Primary** — 3.3 mi away, 10.21% (this school: 11.36%)
- **Narrows View Intermediate** — 4.0 mi away, 9.39% (this school: 11.36%)
- **Drum Intermediate** — 4.3 mi away, 5.94% (this school: 11.36%)

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