Public school / Primary
Harvard Elementary
Tacoma, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530294000476
- District
- Franklin Pierce School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Harvard Elementary is a public primary school in Tacoma, Washington, run by Franklin Pierce School District. It enrols 408 students — the 49706th 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
408
Teachers
30.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
74.8%
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 Franklin Pierce 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.
- 1Franklin Pierce High School1,141 students
- 2Washington High School997 students
- 3Morris Ford Middle School882 students
- 4Perry G Keithley Middle School787 students
- 5Brookdale Elementary486 students
- 6Midland Elementary469 students
- 7Collins Elementary462 students
- 8Harvard Elementary408 students
- Enrollment+2.8%
- Teachers+15.4%
- Students per teacher−17.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+39.8%
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