# Whittier Elementary School

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530870001511`
- **School name**: Whittier Elementary School
- **Location**: Tacoma, WA 98466
- **Address**: 777 Elm Tree Ln
- **District**: Tacoma School District (LEAID `5308700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 47.22900, -122.51410
- **Phone**: (253)571-7500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 305
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.7%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 32.5% (123 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.1%
- **Black/African American**: 5.8%
- **Asian**: 14.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 38.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.6%
- **Two or more races**: 21.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.6% — 78 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,880
- **Federal share**: $1,132
- **State + local share**: $19,748
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 290
### 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**: $102,419
- **Poverty rate**: 5.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.7%
- **Unemployment**: 7.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,380
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.0 miles (COMMENCEMENT BAY SOUTH TACOMA CHANNEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 26
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.06 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**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wainwright Intermediate School** — 0.9 mi away, 29.39% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Evergreen Primary** — 1.1 mi away, 12.45% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Narrows View Intermediate** — 1.5 mi away, 9.39% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Drum Intermediate** — 1.7 mi away, 5.94% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Curtis Senior High** — 1.8 mi away, 16.8% (this school: 32.45%)

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