High · Washington
Science and Math Institute
Free meals for allScience and Math Institute, a public high school in Tacoma, Washington: grades 9–12, 597 students, 20.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Tacoma School District.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 597
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.1
- Students per teacher
- 20.5
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 56% of high schools in Washington
Median 20.0 · 501 schools compared
More students per teacher than 84% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 67% of high schools in Washington
Median 249 · 604 schools compared
Larger than 61% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Tacoma School District
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Tacoma School District.
Location
- Address
- 5501 N. Pearl St, Tacoma, WA 98407
- Phone
- (253)571-2300
- City or town
- Tacoma
- County
- Pierce County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Tacoma Online High SchoolFully virtual | 9–12 | 497 | 15.8 |
Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,160 | 23.0 |
| 6–12 | 21 | 21.0 | |
The School at Pearl Youth ResidenceSpecial educationFree meals for all | 6–12 | 21 | — |
Henderson Bay Alt High SchoolAlternativeMostly virtual | 9–12 | 139 | 13.9 |
| 9–12 | 1,375 | 26.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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