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Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Hewins Early Learning Center, Tacoma, WA

CEP schoolHewins Early Learning Center is a public prekindergarten school in Tacoma, part of Franklin Pierce School District. It enrolled 266 students in 2024-25, with 33.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
266
Teachers (FTE)
8.0
Students per teacher
33.2
Grades
PK

This school's ratio is 17.0 higher 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 school33.2
District16.2
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
12223 S A Street, Tacoma, WA 98444
Phone
(253)298-4675
District
Franklin Pierce School District
County
Pierce County
Level
Prekindergarten
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
530294003589
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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
204
Reduced-price lunch
15
Free or reduced-price lunch
21982.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification
199Students 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

Prekindergarten 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.