Summary:
Wilbur, Washington, has two small public schools serving grades K–12: Wilbur Elementary School serves kindergarten through sixth grade, while Wilbur Secondary School serves grades seven through twelve. Together, they enroll 226 students in the Wilbur School District, with 117 elementary students and 109 secondary students. The schools have low student-teacher ratios of about 11 to 1 and similar per-student spending of roughly $20,500, suggesting that families can expect relatively small school communities and comparable basic resources.
The two schools show different academic strengths. Wilbur Secondary School is currently the stronger performer overall: 50.0% of students were proficient in English language arts and 43.14% in math, exceeding district results in both subjects. Its math performance was essentially equal to the state average, and the school improved substantially in all three tested subjects, including a nearly 20-point increase in math. Science remains its main academic challenge, with 37.14% proficiency. The secondary school’s latest available ranking placed it in the 58th percentile, although that ranking is from a different year than the elementary school’s most recent ranking.
Wilbur Elementary School has more mixed results. Science is a relative strength, with 46.15% proficiency and a gain of more than 10 points from the prior year. Third-grade math is a standout, reaching 64.71%, but performance drops sharply in fourth- and fifth-grade math. Elementary ELA is the greatest concern at 27.54%, below both district and state results, while math also declined year over year. Families may want to ask about literacy support, upper-elementary math instruction, and the transition from seventh to eighth grade, where secondary ELA and math results also fall noticeably. Because enrollment and grade-level groups are small, yearly percentages can change significantly; suppressed scores should be treated as unavailable, not as zero.
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