Lind Elementary School

Lind Elementary School is a small public school serving prekindergarten through grade 5 in the rural community of Lind, Washington, with 82 students in the Lind School District. For 2025–2026, it ranked in the 32nd statewide percentile and received a 2-star rating, while the district ranked 207th of 238 Washington districts. Its small enrollment can make yearly percentages change noticeably, and some grade-level results are suppressed to protect student privacy.

Lind’s strongest current academic area is mathematics. Overall, 45.71% of students were proficient in math, above both Warden Elementary at 35.08% and the Washington average of 43.11%. Third-grade math was especially strong at 63.64%, exceeding the state’s 53.20% and Ritzville Grade School at 58.06%. However, fifth-grade math was much weaker at 23.08%; fourth-grade math was state-suppressed and cannot be interpreted as a zero or a poor result. Lind’s overall ELA proficiency was 40.00%, slightly above Warden’s 36.84% but below the state’s 52.81%. Science was 30.77%, below Warden, Ritzville, and the state.

Compared with nearby schools, Lind falls between the two: it currently outperforms Warden in overall ELA and math but trails Ritzville, which ranks in the 64th statewide percentile and has stronger, more consistent results across grades and subjects. Lind’s math performance improved substantially from 30.56% proficiency in 2024–2025 to 45.71%, while ELA remained fairly stable and science declined from 44.44% to 30.77%. The school also reports a low student-teacher ratio of 10.2-to-1 and higher per-student spending than its nearby comparisons, though those figures do not guarantee particular outcomes. Key priorities are strengthening fifth-grade math, improving ELA—especially third grade—and reversing the recent science decline.