# Science and Math Institute

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530870003286`
- **School name**: Science and Math Institute
- **Location**: Tacoma, WA 98407
- **Address**: 5501 N. Pearl St
- **District**: Tacoma School District (LEAID `5308700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 47.30323, -122.52787
- **Phone**: (253)571-2300
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7433626 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Math_Institute_(Tacoma,_Washington)
- **Founded**: 2009

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 597
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 8
  - proficiency_math_decile: 3
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 5.5
  - grad_combined_decile: 10
  - el_progress_decile: 4
  - regularattendance_decile: 4
  - ninthgradeontrack_decile: 8
  - dualcredit_decile: 10
  - sqss_combined_decile: 7.333333
  - _2025_score: 7.95
  - overall: Foundational

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

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 143

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.4% (76 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.0%
- **Black/African American**: 9.3%
- **Asian**: 6.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 12.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 48 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,923
- **Federal share**: $539
- **State + local share**: $16,384
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 560
### 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**: $104,215
- **Poverty rate**: 9.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 52.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,553
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.7 miles (COMMENCEMENT BAY SOUTH TACOMA CHANNEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.58 miles (EDDON BOAT PARK)

### 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**: 6.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Point Defiance Elementary School** — 1.1 mi away, 11.83% (this school: 12.36%)
- **Downing Elementary School** — 2.5 mi away, 11.36% (this school: 12.36%)
- **Washington Elementary School** — 2.9 mi away, 10.47% (this school: 12.36%)
- **Discovery Elementary School** — 4.0 mi away, 9.36% (this school: 12.36%)
- **Pioneer Elementary School** — 4.2 mi away, 6.84% (this school: 12.36%)

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