Learning Resources

Get Familiar: Tacoma Public Schools Student Tools & Portals

Tacoma Public Schools Username and Password

We use Microsoft Office 365 for students to gain access to Outlook email, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and more. Your student login information is key to accessing many resources.

Search Your School's Website

Each school's website has upcoming events, news, college, career, and counseling resources, and more!

Get to know Compass, the updated TPS Family App, where families can register for before- and after-school activities, view their student’s grades and attendance, find bus routes, make online payments using MySchoolBucks and more.

FinalForms

Interested in participating in sports? This is where you and your family will register for athletics and complete required forms.

Find Your Next Book

Tacoma Public Library Catalog

Our partnership with Tacoma Public Libraries allows students and teachers to access library resources using their student or employee ID card. Students who don't have their ID on them can still check out materials using their student ID number.

Tacoma Public Library Website

Elementary Student Resources

MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL STUDENt resources

PARENTS & EDUCATOR resourceS

Find your next favorite book, e-book, audiobook, and resources using your student library account.

Register your account

Click on “Log in/My Account” in the upper right hand corner of any page of the Tacoma Public Library website. Then click on "Log in/Register" at the top of the drop down menu.
Type your student ID number into the field “Username or Barcode” and type 1234 into the “PIN” field.
You'll then be asked to create your library username and activate your online account.
Once you have logged in, click on “My Settings” to change your pin number and add an email address.

Once your account is set up, click “Search” in the upper right hand corner of any page on the library's website to find items in the library catalog.

To learn more about the resources available through the pathway program, visit the Pathway Partnership FAQs on the TPL website.

Need help?

If your student ID number is not working to access Tacoma Public Library digital resources your parent/ guardian may need to submit an opt-in form to grant you access.

It may take up to one week after you submit the form for your ID number to work. Please reach out to your school's librarian if you have questions.

opt-in Form