Summary:
Sumas, Washington, has one listed public school: Sumas Elementary, a PK–5 school serving 295 students in the Nooksack Valley School District. The school is the only option within the city, so there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful comparisons are with the district and Washington statewide results. The area’s school profile includes a 15.2-to-1 student–teacher ratio, $19,077 in per-student spending, and 62.37% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals.
Sumas Elementary shows its strongest recent performance in Math. In 2025–26, 46.56% of students were proficient in Math, slightly above the district’s 46.24% and above Washington’s 43.11%. Third-grade Math was especially strong, with 56.10% proficiency, exceeding both comparison groups, while fourth-grade Math was above the state result. However, fifth-grade Math fell to 31.91%, indicating that students’ results became much weaker by the end of elementary school. Science was also below both the district and state, with 40.43% proficiency in the reported fifth-grade results.
English Language Arts is the school’s clearest area for improvement. Overall ELA proficiency was 37.40%, compared with 50.24% in the district and 52.81% statewide. Fourth-grade ELA was particularly low at 32.56%, more than 25 percentage points below the district. ELA also declined from the prior year, while Math improved by 5.74 points and Science remained nearly unchanged. The school’s statewide ranking improved from the 32nd percentile to the 37th percentile in 2025–26, but it remains below the midpoint and below its 2023–24 level. Parents may want to ask about literacy support, fourth-grade ELA instruction, the fifth-grade Math transition, and plans for improving Science.
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