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Puyallup · WA · Puyallup School District · Public · K-12 combined

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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How PSD Special Services compares for families

What families should know about PSD Special Services.

  • 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: Puyallup High School, E B Walker High School, Cascade Christian -Junior High/High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
0%
Strong: experienced corps. New teachers rotate through but most have ≥3 years in.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
32.8%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

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.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

44.2%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

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 went from 76 in 2021 to 52 in 2024 — over 3 years.
-31.6%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -11.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 52 students:

2025
46
2027
36
2029
28

A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Puyallup High School
Puyallup
Public 0.3 1,815 +6.3%
E B Walker High School
Puyallup
Public 1.1 120 +44.6%
Cascade Christian -Junior High/High School
Puyallup
Private 1.6 479 +32.3%
Puyallup Open Doors/POD
Puyallup
Public 2.6 124 +14.8%
Sumner High School
Sumner
Public 3.1 1,857 +7.6%
Gov John Rogers High School
Puyallup
Public 3.7 1,788 +3.8%
Fife Open Doors
Tacoma
Public 4.2 25
Fife High School
Tacoma
Public 4.2 885 +1.7%

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