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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Spanaway Middle School, Tacoma, WA

CEP schoolSpanaway Middle School is a public middle school in Tacoma, part of Bethel School District. It enrolled 766 students in 2024-25, with 22.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
766
Teachers (FTE)
34.0
Students per teacher
22.5
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 4.0 higher than the district figure of 18.5. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school22.5
District18.5
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
15701 B Street East, Tacoma, WA 98445
Phone
(253)800-5400
District
Bethel School District
County
Pierce County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
530048000128
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
421
Reduced-price lunch
98
Free or reduced-price lunch
51967.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification
358Students 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 middle schools in Bethel School District

Middle 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.