Summary
Regal Elementary is a PK–5 school in Spokane serving 381 students in the Spokane School District, an urban district with substantial variation among its schools. Located at 2707 E Rich Ave., Regal serves a high-need community: 84.25% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school has a 12.4 student-teacher ratio, spends $22,014 per student, and currently ranks at the 5th percentile statewide, with 0 stars.
Academic results are a major concern. In 2025–26, 24.26% of students were proficient in English language arts, 14.12% in math, and 21.05% in science—well below both district and state rates. Math is the weakest subject, and proficiency is low in every tested grade: fifth-grade math was 10.34%, while fourth-grade ELA, the strongest grade-subject combination, was 28.07%. Science has declined especially sharply, from 46.81% in 2023–24 to 21.05% in 2025–26. Regal also ranks below nearly all nearby schools in each tested subject. For example, Longfellow Elementary and Cooper Elementary report considerably stronger results, while Lidgerwood Elementary outperforms Regal despite serving an even higher percentage of students qualifying for subsidized meals.
Regal’s results reflect a persistent challenge rather than a single weak year: its statewide ranking has generally remained in the lower percentiles since 2015–16 and recently fell from the 14th percentile to the 4th and then 5th percentile. Performance is also similarly low for female, male, and low-socioeconomic-status students. At the same time, Regal’s staffing ratio and spending are close to nearby-school averages, so the available data do not point to an unusually large school, especially high class-size ratio, or exceptionally low funding as the sole explanation. Families may want to ask about foundational reading and math support, attendance and intervention systems, staffing stability, and the causes of the steep science decline.
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