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Fife High School, Tacoma, WA

Fife High School is a public high school in Tacoma, part of Fife School District. It enrolled 885 students in 2024-25, with 23.3 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
885
Teachers (FTE)
38.0
Students per teacher
23.3
Grades
10 to 12

This school's ratio is 4.2 higher than the district figure of 19.1. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school23.3
District19.1
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
5616 20th St E, Tacoma, WA 98424
Phone
(253)517-1100
District
Fife School District
County
Pierce County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
530288000465
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
315
Reduced-price lunch
127
Free or reduced-price lunch
44249.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
261Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

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 high schools in Fife School District

High 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.