Public school / High
Dr. Dolores Silas High School
Tacoma, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530870001513
- District
- Tacoma School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dr. Dolores Silas High School is a public high school in Tacoma, Washington, run by Tacoma School District. It enrols 1,114 students — the 6857th 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
1,114
Teachers
48.0
Students per teacher
23.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
44.9%
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 Tacoma 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.
- 1Lincoln High School1,578 students
- 2Stadium High School1,571 students
- 3Mount Tahoma High School1,430 students
- 4Dr. Dolores Silas High School1,114 students
- 5Baker Middle School694 students
- 6Mason Middle School659 students
- 7Stewart Middle School627 students
- 8Tacoma School of the Arts624 students
- Enrollment+180.6%
- Teachers+84.6%
- Students per teacher+40.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−16.1%
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