Summary:
ZIP code 98039 has one listed public school serving students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade: Medina Elementary School in the Bellevue School District. Located in the Medina area, the school enrolls 591 students, so families will not find another school in this ZIP code for a direct local comparison.
Medina Elementary School stands out for both its academic results and ranking history. It ranked first among 1,138 Washington schools in 2025–2026, after ranking fourth and third in the two previous years. In 2025–2026, 95.07% of students were proficient in English Language Arts and 96.85% were proficient in math. Those results were substantially higher than the Bellevue School District averages of 73.43% in ELA and 69.61% in math, as well as Washington state averages of 52.81% and 43.11%, respectively. Fifth-grade results were also especially strong, with 94.66% proficiency in ELA and 96.24% in math.
The school’s reported performance improved from the prior year, rising 2.60 percentage points in ELA and 3.40 points in math. Its reported per-student spending was $20,137 in 2023–2024, and its student-teacher ratio was 21.5 to 1 in 2024–2025. About 5.58% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, though that measure does not capture every aspect of student need. Some results, including science and several grade-level figures, were suppressed and therefore cannot be evaluated. Overall, the available data show consistently exceptional ELA and math performance, while families should recognize that the academic profile is incomplete in certain subjects and grades.
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