Public school / Middle
Spanaway Middle School
Tacoma, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530048000128
- District
- Bethel School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Spanaway Middle School is a public middle school in Tacoma, Washington, run by Bethel School District. It enrols 720 students — the 18188th 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
720
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
21.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
70.0%
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 Bethel 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.
- 1Graham Kapowsin High School2,011 students
- 2Spanaway Lake High School1,817 students
- 3Bethel High School1,739 students
- 4Liberty Middle School936 students
- 5Cedarcrest Middle School764 students
- 6Spanaway Middle School720 students
- 7Nelson Elementary School707 students
- 8Bethel Middle School697 students
- Enrollment+81.4%
- Teachers+30.8%
- Students per teacher+28.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+30.8%
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