Summary:
Sultan, Washington, has one middle school serving grades 6–8: Sultan Middle School, a 462-student school in the small Sultan community and part of the Sultan School District. Since it is the only middle school in the city, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful benchmarks are the district and Washington state.
Academic results are mixed but generally below state and district levels. In 2025–2026, 40% of students were proficient in English language arts, 28.19% in math, and 42.31% in science. Math is the clearest area of concern, with proficiency below 31% in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. ELA was strongest in seventh grade at 47.48%, while sixth-grade ELA was notably lower at 31.85%. Compared with Washington, the school trailed by 12.81 percentage points in ELA, 14.92 points in math, and 8.64 points in science. Science was the only subject to improve from the previous year, rising 5.32 points, while ELA dropped sharply by 19.64 points and math declined by 4.25 points.
The school’s relative standing also weakened recently. Its ranking improved from the 50th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 55th percentile in 2024–2025, then fell to the 34th percentile and a 2-star rating in 2025–2026. More than half of students, 52.81%, qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. The school reported $17,859 in per-student spending and a 20.6-to-1 student-teacher ratio. For families considering the school, the main questions are how it plans to strengthen math across all grades, what contributed to the recent ELA decline, and whether the science improvement continues.
Thank you for your feedback!