Public school / Primary
Dessie F Evans Elementary
Puyallup, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530696003690
- District
- Puyallup School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dessie F Evans Elementary is a public primary school in Puyallup, Washington, run by Puyallup School District. It enrols 988 students — the 8878th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.
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
988
Teachers
55.0
Students per teacher
18.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
41.7%
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.
Within Puyallup 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.
- 1Gov John Rogers High School1,730 students
- 2Puyallup High School1,701 students
- 3Emerald Ridge High School1,537 students
- 4Dessie F Evans Elementary988 students
- 5Doris Stahl Junior High902 students
- 6Ballou Jr High890 students
- 7Glacier View Junior High832 students
- 8Kalles Junior High831 students
- Enrollment+148.9%
- Teachers+111.5%
- Students per teacher+9.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−22.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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