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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Central Avenue Elementary, Tacoma, WA

CEP schoolCentral Avenue Elementary is a public elementary school in Tacoma, part of Franklin Pierce School District. It enrolled 355 students in 2024-25, with 13.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
355
Teachers (FTE)
26.0
Students per teacher
13.7
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 2.5 lower than the district figure of 16.2. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.7
District16.2
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
4505 104th St E, Tacoma, WA 98446
Phone
(253)298-3205
District
Franklin Pierce School District
County
Pierce County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
530294000471
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
173
Reduced-price lunch
37
Free or reduced-price lunch
21059.2% of enrollment.
Direct certification
162Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Franklin Pierce School District

Elementary schools elsewhere in Tacoma

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.