# Foss High School

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530870001466`
- **School name**: Foss High School
- **Location**: Tacoma, WA 98405
- **Address**: 2112 S Tyler St
- **District**: Tacoma School District (LEAID `5308700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 47.23990, -122.49510
- **Phone**: (253)571-7300
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5721472 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Foss_High_School
- **Founded**: 1973

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 599
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 2
  - proficiency_math_decile: 1
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 1.5
  - grad_combined_decile: 6
  - el_progress_decile: 3
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - ninthgradeontrack_decile: 2
  - dualcredit_decile: 10
  - sqss_combined_decile: 4.333333
  - _2025_score: 4.25
  - overall: Foundational

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

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 76

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 58.8% (356 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**: 20.2%
- **Black/African American**: 9.5%
- **Asian**: 22.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 31.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 3.2%
- **Two or more races**: 12.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.1% — 121 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 62 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 32 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,147
- **Federal share**: $1,308
- **State + local share**: $22,839
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 552
### 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**: $84,211
- **Poverty rate**: 9.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.2%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,218
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (COMMENCEMENT BAY SOUTH TACOMA CHANNEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.91 miles (SALVATION ARMY PROPERTY)

### 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**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Delong Elementary School** — 0.7 mi away, 36.96% (this school: 58.84%)
- **Franklin Elementary School** — 0.9 mi away, 36.77% (this school: 58.84%)
- **Wainwright Intermediate School** — 1.1 mi away, 29.39% (this school: 58.84%)
- **Whittier Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 32.45% (this school: 58.84%)
- **The School at Pearl Youth Residence** — 1.3 mi away, 42.11% (this school: 58.84%)

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