Summary:
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary is the only school in this area, serving about 385 students in kindergarten through fifth grade in Seattle, Washington. The school’s current ranking is 824th out of 1,138 Washington schools, placing it in the 28th percentile. About 66.75% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 15.4 to 1, and reported spending was $18,603 per student in 2023–2024. Because there is only one school, parents cannot compare it with nearby schools in this list; the most useful comparisons are with Washington averages and the school’s own results across grades and years.
Impact | Salish Sea Elementary performed below the Washington average in every current subject comparison. All-grade proficiency was 34.95% in English Language Arts, 35.68% in math, and 45.45% in science, compared with state rates of 52.81%, 43.11%, and 50.95%. Fifth-grade ELA was the strongest result at 49.09%, only 4.78 percentage points below the state. Third-grade math was the strongest math result at 44.59%. Fourth grade was the clearest area of concern: only 24.56% were proficient in ELA and 25.00% in math, roughly 25 percentage points below state rates. The large improvement from fourth- to fifth-grade ELA may be worth investigating for practices that could help younger students.
Results declined across all three tested subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 7.80 percentage points, math declined 5.99 points, and science dropped 10.11 points. Science shifted from a relative strength above the state average in the prior year to below the state average most recently. The school’s reported ranking also declined from the 48th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 28th percentile in 2025–2026, with its rating changing from two stars to one. Parents considering the school may want to ask about fourth-grade support, recent staffing or curriculum changes, attendance, intervention programs, and how the school is responding to the broad academic decline.
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