Summary:
Zip code 98014 has one middle school, Tolt Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the Carnation area. The school enrolls 633 students and is part of the highly rated Riverview School District, which ranks 14th out of 238 Washington districts. Because Tolt is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful comparisons are with the district, the state, and Tolt’s recent results.
Tolt offers a generally strong academic profile. In 2025–26, 60.32% of students were proficient in English language arts and 51.53% in math, exceeding statewide results by 7.51 and 8.42 percentage points, respectively. Math performance was above the district rate at every reported grade level, while 7th-grade English language arts was a particular strength, with 65.33% proficiency. The school’s statewide ranking has also been steady, ranging from the 76th to 78th percentile over the past three years, and it received a four-star rating. However, 8th grade was the weakest grade in both English language arts and math, although results still exceeded state and district rates in math and remained above the state in English language arts.
Science is the clearest area for improvement. Tolt’s 2025–26 science proficiency rate was 50.27%, nearly equal to the state rate but 17.87 points below the district rate, and science performance fell 6.40 points from the prior year. Families may also wish to consider the school’s broader context: 22.27% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, the student–teacher ratio was 18.6 to 1, and reported per-student spending was $18,235 in 2023–24. Overall, Tolt appears to be a consistently above-average statewide school with solid English language arts and math results, while science and some 8th-grade outcomes deserve closer attention.
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