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Public school / Ungraded

Columbia Junior High School

Tacoma, Washington

NCES ID
530288003161
District
Fife School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Columbia Junior High School is a public ungraded school in Tacoma, Washington, run by Fife School District. It enrols 565 students — the 30038th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

565students

30038th nationally, tied with 91

Teachers

30.0FTE

41832nd nationally, tied with 2,155

Students per teacher

18.8students

74192nd nationally, tied with 419

Free or reduced-price lunch

47.4%percent

53214th nationally, tied with 105

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Fife School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Fife High School879 students
  2. 2Fife Elementary School838 students
  3. 3Surprise Lake Middle School650 students
  4. 4Columbia Junior High School565 students
  5. 5Discovery Primary School496 students
  6. 6Hedden Elementary School436 students
  7. 7Fife Open Doors29 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Washington median across 2,574 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+42.3%
  • Teachers+15.4%
  • Students per teacher+13.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−11.4%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.