Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 98032

ZIP code 98032 has one middle school serving grades 6–8: Mill Creek Middle School. The school serves 866 students in the Kent area and is part of the Kent School District. Because there is only one middle school in the ZIP code, families cannot compare nearby schools within 98032 directly; the most useful comparisons are between Mill Creek’s grade levels, subjects, recent results, and district and state averages.

Mill Creek’s strongest area is English Language Arts, with 19.08% of students proficient in 2025–2026. Seventh-grade ELA was the school’s best grade-subject result at 20.00%, while eighth-grade ELA was 17.81%. Math is the clearest area of concern: overall proficiency was 10.98%, ranging from 11.69% in sixth grade to 9.90% in eighth grade. Science proficiency was 17.95%, based on eighth-grade testing. These results are low across all grades, but the school did improve year over year in every tested subject. Science showed the largest increase, rising 4.89 percentage points, followed by ELA at 2.81 points and Math at 1.48 points.

Compared with the district, Mill Creek’s proficiency rates were about 23–24 percentage points lower in ELA, Math, and Science. Compared with Washington state, the gaps were roughly 32–34 points. The school ranked 506th out of 514 schools in 2025–2026, placing it near the bottom statewide, although that was an improvement from 532nd in each of the two prior years. About 72.98% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, and the reported student-teacher ratio was 18.9 to 1. These figures provide useful context for families considering support needs, but they do not by themselves explain academic outcomes. Overall, the data shows modest recent progress alongside a substantial need for sustained improvement, particularly in Math.