Acceleration Academy
Spanaway · WA · Bethel School District · Public
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Transition 18-21 Program → Spanaway Lake High School → Challenger High School → Washington High School → Franklin Pierce High School → Pierce County Skills Center → GATES Secondary School → Bethel High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Acceleration Academy compares for families
What families should know about Acceleration Academy.
- ▸ LocallyWA sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Transition 18-21 Program, Spanaway Lake High School, Challenger High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
📊 State assessment · WA Smarter Balanced · grade 10
SBAC grade 10 — met or exceeded standard
School year 2024-25. Levels 3 + 4 combined ("at or above grade level"). Cells suppressed by the state when sample is small.
Source: WA state DOE Smarter Balanced results. Levels 1–2 = below standard, 3 = met, 4 = exceeded. Headline = level 3 + level 4 combined.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +17.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 450 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $17,390 per student in district revenue, the 536 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $9,321,040/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transition 18-21 Program Spanaway |
Public | 1.0 | 58 | +13.7% |
| Spanaway Lake High School Spanaway |
Public | 1.1 | 1,787 | +5.6% |
| Challenger High School Spanaway |
Public | 1.2 | 273 | +5.8% |
| Washington High School Tacoma |
Public | 2.6 | 989 | -0.3% |
| Franklin Pierce High School TACOMA |
Public | 3.6 | 977 | -14.7% |
| Pierce County Skills Center Puyallup |
Public | 3.7 | 355 | — |
| GATES Secondary School Tacoma |
Public | 3.9 | 104 | +20.9% |
| Bethel High School Spanaway |
Public | 4.6 | 1,688 | -2.9% |