Summary:
Montesano, Washington, has three public schools serving about 1,433 students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Beacon Avenue Elementary School serves PK–2, Simpson Avenue Elementary serves grades 3–6, and Montesano Junior-Senior High serves grades 7–12. All are part of the highly ranked Montesano School District, which ranks 29th among 238 Washington districts, or approximately the 88th percentile.
For current academic results, Simpson Avenue is the strongest overall elementary performer, with 60.15% proficiency in English language arts, 59.29% in math, and 63.92% in science. Its math and science results are especially strong compared with state averages, although sixth-grade math drops to 43.02% and is worth monitoring before students move to the secondary school. Simpson’s ranking has also improved steadily, reaching the 77th percentile in the latest listing. Montesano Junior-Senior High has the strongest ELA results, with 67.54% proficiency, and excellent completion outcomes: a 94% graduation rate and a 3.4% dropout rate. Its main challenge is math, where 41.23% of students are proficient overall and only 35.34% of tenth graders meet the standard, despite improvement from the previous year.
Beacon Avenue has no current test scores or recent ranking in the supplied information, so its academic performance cannot be fairly compared with the other schools. It does, however, have the lowest student-teacher ratio at 16.4:1 and the highest listed spending per student at $18,262. Simpson has a 17.7:1 ratio and $15,164 in spending per student, while the junior-senior high school has a larger 20.4:1 ratio and $15,621 in spending. Overall, the district appears strong relative to Washington, with Simpson standing out in elementary math and science and the junior-senior high school standing out in ELA, graduation, and dropout outcomes. The clearest improvement priorities are secondary math, sixth-grade math preparation, and obtaining current achievement data for Beacon Avenue.
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