Summary:
Colbert, Washington, has one middle school, Mountainside Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 824 students in the Mead School District.
Mountainside Middle School offers a mixed academic picture, with English Language Arts (ELA) as its strongest area. In 2025–2026, 55.47% of students met the ELA standard, which was above Washington’s 52.81% rate, although it was below the Mead School District rate of 60.47%. ELA performance was consistent across grades, with about 55% of students meeting standards in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Math results were weaker: 40.37% of students met the standard, compared with 49.65% districtwide and 43.11% statewide. Math performance also declined by grade, from 42.25% in 6th grade to 38.79% in 8th grade. Science was the most significant concern, with 42.99% proficiency, below both the district’s 52.65% and the state’s 50.95%.
Recent trends suggest that families should pay attention to the school’s direction as well as its current results. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, proficiency declined by 2.10 percentage points in ELA, 4.45 points in math, and 7.01 points in science. The school’s ranking also fell from the 69th to the 64th percentile in the supplied data. Still, Mountainside Middle School has several contextual strengths, including a substantial enrollment, a reported student-teacher ratio of 18.6:1, and per-student spending of $15,182 in 2023–2024. Parents may want to ask about math support, science instruction, intervention programs, attendance, and how the school is responding to the recent declines.
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