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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Other

Peninsula Alternative Programs

Gig Harbor, Washington

NCES ID
530669003828
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Peninsula Alternative Programs is a public other school in Gig Harbor, Washington, run by Peninsula School District. It enrols 118 students — the 85751st 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

118students

85751st nationally, tied with 82

Free or reduced-price lunch

32.2%percent

67705th nationally, tied with 73

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.

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 Peninsula 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. 1Gig Harbor High1,435 students
  2. 2Peninsula High School1,372 students
  3. 3Harbor Ridge Middle School596 students
  4. 4Pioneer Elementary School506 students
  5. 5Purdy Elementary School484 students
  6. 6Swift Water Elementary473 students
  7. 7Key Peninsula Middle School469 students
  8. 8Kopachuck Middle School462 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−70.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−39.8%
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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.