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Tacoma, Washington - 1 schools
An equity score of 72/100 ranks Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary #42 of 238 districts in Washington (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,176 per pupil, Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary ranks #212 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 326 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Pierce County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,176 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 4.9% local, 69.2% state, and 25.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 72/100, ranked #42 of 238 in Washington against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 52.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 27.2% Hispanic or Latino, 24.1% African American, 21.6% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Impact Public Schools, enrolling 232 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Impact Public Schools accounts for 71.2% of all Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary a distant remainder — means Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 50.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 52.6% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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