Summary:
Tulalip, Washington, has one public school, Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary, serving students from kindergarten through sixth grade in the Marysville School District. The school enrolls 498 students and has no middle school, high school, or alternative school listed in the city’s data, so families will need to look outside Tulalip for later grades.
Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.9 to 1, but its academic results are well below both district and Washington averages. In 2025–2026, 13.93% of students were proficient in English language arts, compared with 38.60% districtwide and 52.81% statewide. Math proficiency was 9.94%, versus 28.63% in the district and 43.11% statewide. Science was the school’s strongest subject at 22.34%, although it still trailed the district by about 14 percentage points and the state by about 29 points. The school serves a community with substantial economic need, with 71.29% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, and reported per-student spending was $22,308.
Recent results show both progress and continuing challenges. Science improved by 10.14 percentage points from the prior year, while ELA was nearly unchanged and math declined by 4.63 points. Fifth grade was the strongest reported grade in ELA, with 20.43% proficiency, while sixth-grade ELA was weakest at 7.46%. Sixth-grade math results were suppressed and should be considered unknown, not zero. The school’s statewide ranking improved from 1,155th of 1,160 schools to 1,103rd of 1,138, but it remains near the bottom statewide. For parents, the most important areas to ask about are foundational math support, upper-grade reading instruction, and how the school plans to maintain its science improvement.
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