Summary:
This analysis covers one elementary school, Impact Public Schools, serving grades PK-5 with 232 students in the Impact | Commencement Bay Elementary district in Tacoma, Washington.
Impact Public Schools is a school that invests significant resources, spending $21,390 per student to maintain a low student-teacher ratio of 13.6 to 1. It serves a community with high economic need, where about 66% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Academically, the school shows a notable strength in mathematics, with overall proficiency exceeding the Washington state average. However, its performance in English Language Arts lags slightly behind the state, and its overall state ranking places it in the middle of all elementary schools.
Looking closer at the grades, fourth-grade students perform particularly well in math, scoring above the state average, while third-grade math scores are currently lower. The school's 2-star rating is slightly below the 3-star rating for its district overall. The key takeaway is that this school, despite the socioeconomic challenges its students face, is achieving above-average results in math with substantial resource support, but there is clear room for growth, especially in early-grade math and literacy instruction across all grades.
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