An equity score of 67/100 ranks Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary #55 of 239 districts in Washington (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,509 per pupil, Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary ranks #243 of 311 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
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 $16,509 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 311 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 67/100, ranked #55 of 239 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 largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary reports 50.9% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
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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