Pierce County Skills Center
Puyallup · WA · Bethel School District · Public · K-12 combined
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Acceleration Academy → Industrial Design Engineering and Arts → Challenger High School → Bates Technical High School → General William H. Harrison Preparatory School → Tacoma Open Doors → CPSD Open Doors Program → Foss High School →At a glance
- 1 AP courses offered — Limited
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Pierce County Skills Center compares for families
What families should know about Pierce County Skills Center.
- ▸ LocallyWA sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Acceleration Academy, Industrial Design Engineering and Arts, Challenger High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 22% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Your state's public flagship
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $14,091/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acceleration Academy Spanaway |
Public | 3.7 | 450 | +60.1% |
| Industrial Design Engineering and Arts Tacoma |
Public | 7.2 | 392 | -1.8% |
| Challenger High School Spanaway |
Public | 3.7 | 273 | +5.8% |
| Bates Technical High School Tacoma |
Public | 10.7 | 343 | -15.3% |
| General William H. Harrison Preparatory School Lakewood |
Public | 8.3 | 307 | +0.0% |
| Tacoma Open Doors Tacoma |
Public | 10.2 | 392 | +23.7% |
| CPSD Open Doors Program Lakewood |
Public | 7.9 | 276 | +32.1% |
| Foss High School Tacoma |
Public | 11.1 | 599 | -3.1% |