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High · Alternative · Grades 10 to 12

GATES Secondary School, Tacoma, WA

CEP schoolGATES Secondary School is a public high school in Tacoma, part of Franklin Pierce School District. It enrolled 104 students in 2024-25, with 8.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
104
Teachers (FTE)
13.0
Students per teacher
8.0
Grades
10 to 12

This school's ratio is 8.2 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 school8.0
District16.2
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
4608 128th St E, Tacoma, WA 98446
Phone
(253)298-4000
District
Franklin Pierce School District
County
Pierce County
Level
High
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
530294001769
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
71
Reduced-price lunch
9
Free or reduced-price lunch
8076.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
67Students 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 Franklin Pierce 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.