# Drum Intermediate

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530918002383`
- **School name**: Drum Intermediate
- **Location**: UNIVERSITY PLA, WA 98467
- **Address**: 4909 79TH AVENUE W
- **District**: University Place School District (LEAID `5309180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–7
- **Coordinates**: 47.21190, -122.54120
- **Phone**: (253)566-5660

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 639
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 8
  - proficiency_math_decile: 8
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 8
  - growth_ela_decile: 10
  - growth_math_decile: 9
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 9.5
  - el_progress_decile: 4
  - regularattendance_decile: 9
  - sqss_combined_decile: 9
  - _2025_score: 8.6
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.9% (36 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.0%
- **Black/African American**: 7.3%
- **Asian**: 11.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.3%
- **Two or more races**: 16.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 60 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,413
- **Federal share**: $256
- **State + local share**: $15,157
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 638
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,492,250
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 64.7%
- **Local share**: 24.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,336,184

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $92,404
- **Poverty rate**: 18.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.7%
- **Unemployment**: 0.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,717
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (COMMENCEMENT BAY SOUTH TACOMA CHANNEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.39 miles (8328 8330 SOUTH TACOMA WAY)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.67506 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lakes High School** — 3.8 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 5.94%)
- **Beachwood Elementary School** — 6.7 mi away, 1.38% (this school: 5.94%)
- **Gates Secondary School** — 6.8 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 5.94%)
- **Hillside Elementary School** — 7.6 mi away, 0.69% (this school: 5.94%)
- **Chloe Clark Elementary** — 9.2 mi away, 4.98% (this school: 5.94%)

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