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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Foster Senior High School, Tukwila, WA

CEP schoolFoster Senior High School is a public high school in Tukwila, part of Tukwila School District. It enrolled 910 students in 2024-25, with 23.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
910
Teachers (FTE)
38.0
Students per teacher
23.9
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 3.6 higher than the district figure of 20.3. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school23.9
District20.3
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
4242 S 144th St, Tukwila, WA 98168
County
King County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
530813001341
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
514
Reduced-price lunch
112
Free or reduced-price lunch
62668.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification
408Students 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 high schools in Tukwila School District

High schools elsewhere in Tukwila

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.