Summary:
Mabton School District has one elementary school, Artz Fox Elementary, serving students from kindergarten through sixth grade in Mabton, Washington. The school enrolls 375 students and has a student-teacher ratio of 17.7 to 1. About 90.4% of students receive free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that the school serves a community with significant economic needs. Per-student spending was $21,559 in 2023–2024. Because it is the district’s only elementary school, its results provide the clearest picture of the elementary experience across the district.
In 2025–2026, 25.93% of students at Artz Fox Elementary were proficient in English language arts, nearly matching the district’s 25.82% and well below Washington’s 52.81%. Math proficiency was 14.38%, slightly above the district’s 12.87% but far below the state’s 43.11%, making math the school’s most pressing academic concern. Results varied by grade: sixth-grade ELA was the strongest reported result at 36.54%, while fifth-grade ELA was lowest at 16.67%. Fourth-grade math was the strongest reported math result at 21.95%, although it remained below the state rate. Fifth-grade math and current school-level science results were suppressed, so they should be treated as unknown rather than zero.
There are some encouraging signs. ELA proficiency at Artz Fox Elementary rose 6.78 percentage points from the prior year, while math declined slightly by 1.58 points. The school’s ranking improved to the 11th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 2nd percentile the year before, though overall performance remains low compared with schools statewide. Parents may want to ask about the strategies supporting sixth-grade ELA and fourth-grade math, as well as targeted help for fifth-grade ELA and math instruction across all grades. The Mabton School District is ranked near the bottom statewide, and its science results are also well below the state average, although current school-level science performance cannot be determined from the available data.
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