Summary
Selah Intermediate School is a public school serving grades 3–5 in Selah, Washington, with 806 students—making it substantially larger than most nearby elementary schools. In the Selah School District, 60.79% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–25. The school has a 16.4 student-teacher ratio and spent $15,522 per student in 2023–24. Its 2025–26 statewide ranking placed it at the 32nd percentile, an improvement from the 21st percentile the previous year.
Academically, math is the school’s clearest relative strength. In 2025–26, 39.64% of students were proficient in math, compared with 30.91% across the district and 43.11% statewide. Math performance was also second-highest among the nearby schools with published results, behind Summitview Elementary. Science proficiency was 43.22%, above the district’s 37.09%, while English language arts proficiency was 35.43%, nearly identical to the district but well below Washington’s 52.81%. Compared with Gilbert Elementary School, Selah had stronger math results but weaker science and a slightly lower overall ranking. Math results decline from third grade to fifth grade, and fourth-grade ELA is a particular weak point.
The latest improvement is encouraging, but important challenges remain. English learners ranked at the 15th percentile statewide, while students receiving special education services ranked at the 4th percentile for the second consecutive year. These results suggest a need for stronger language-development support, intervention, progress monitoring, and coordination between individualized education plans and classroom instruction. The migrant-student subgroup ranked at the 62nd percentile, although that comparison is based on a small number of schools. Overall, Selah Intermediate appears to be recovering, especially in math, but families may want to pay close attention to literacy progress, upper-grade math development, and the school’s plans to support students receiving special education services.
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