# Gates Secondary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530294001769`
- **School name**: Gates Secondary School
- **Location**: Tacoma, WA 98444
- **Address**: 813 132nd Street S
- **District**: Franklin Pierce School District (LEAID `5302940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 8–12
- **Coordinates**: 47.13796, -122.44392
- **Phone**: (253)298-4005

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 104
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - grad_combined_decile: 4
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - dualcredit_decile: 6
  - sqss_combined_decile: 3.5
  - overall: Foundational

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

## Graduation rates
- **2023**: 83.0% (cohort of 88)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 8

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (1 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.2%
- **Black/African American**: 4.6%
- **Asian**: 13.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 29.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 8.0%
- **Two or more races**: 11.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 9 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $40,763
- **Federal share**: $1,195
- **State + local share**: $39,569
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 115
### 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**: $85,139
- **Poverty rate**: 10.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.2%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,467
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (LAKEWOOD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.30 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**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hillside Elementary School** — 6.4 mi away, 0.69% (this school: 1.19%)
- **Lakes High School** — 6.4 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 1.19%)

### graduation rate
- **Washington High School** — 0.7 mi away, 88.9% (this school: 82.95%)
- **Franklin Pierce High School** — 2.2 mi away, 89.2% (this school: 82.95%)
- **Spanaway Lake High School** — 2.7 mi away, 91.7% (this school: 82.95%)
- **Clover Park High School** — 3.8 mi away, 89.3% (this school: 82.95%)
- **Lakes High School** — 6.4 mi away, 94.1% (this school: 82.95%)

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