# Thomas Jefferson High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530282000451`
- **School name**: Thomas Jefferson High School
- **Location**: AUBURN, WA 98001
- **Address**: 4248 S 288TH ST
- **District**: Federal Way School District (LEAID `5302820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 47.34440, -122.27910
- **Phone**: (253)945-5600
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7791262 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_High_School_(Auburn,_Washington)
- **Founded**: 1968

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,810
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 80
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.9%

## 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: 2
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - ninthgradeontrack_decile: 3
  - dualcredit_decile: 9
  - sqss_combined_decile: 4.333333
  - _2025_score: 4.2
  - overall: Foundational

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

## Graduation rates
- **2023**: 90.9%

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 108

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.1% (714 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.8%
- **Black/African American**: 18.4%
- **Asian**: 11.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 22.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 3.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 175 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 91 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 39 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,474
- **Federal share**: $1,357
- **State + local share**: $16,117
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,730
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,903,813
- **Federal share**: 15.0%
- **State share**: 68.0%
- **Local share**: 16.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,503,501

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $102,301
- **Poverty rate**: 8.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,529
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.5 miles (MIDWAY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.02 miles (FORMER JAPANESE AUTO WRECKING SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: Auburn City of
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.41835 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Camelot Elementary School** — 0.8 mi away, 29.57% (this school: 42.12%)
- **Meredith Hill Elementary School** — 1.1 mi away, 24.88% (this school: 42.12%)
- **Lake Dolloff Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 39.05% (this school: 42.12%)
- **Kilo Middle School** — 1.2 mi away, 41.2% (this school: 42.12%)
- **Mark Twain Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 39.87% (this school: 42.12%)

### graduation rate
- **Career Academy at Truman High School** — 2.0 mi away, 91% (this school: 90.9%)
- **Federal Way High School** — 2.0 mi away, 93.4% (this school: 90.9%)
- **Decatur High School** — 4.6 mi away, 97% (this school: 90.9%)
- **Auburn Mountainview High School** — 5.0 mi away, 93.7% (this school: 90.9%)
- **Auburn Riverside High School** — 5.9 mi away, 94.2% (this school: 90.9%)

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

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