Best Public Schools in Zip Code 98051

Zip code 98051, which includes the Ravensdale area, has one listed public school: Summit Trail Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the Tahoma School District. Because it is the only school in the ZIP code, there are no local school-to-school comparisons in this data. Families should also note that a ZIP-code list may not include every school that serves children living in the area.

Summit Trail Middle School has 1,097 students and a 5-star rating, with rankings consistently near the top of its comparison group. It ranked 41st out of 514 schools for 2025–2026, placing it in the 92nd percentile, and ranked 10th out of 238 in its district. Academic results were well above Washington averages in every subject: 70.56% of students were proficient in English language arts, 63.57% in math, and 76.36% in science. The school’s strongest area was science, where it exceeded the state by more than 25 percentage points and the district by more than 6 points.

Performance generally improved by grade, with 8th graders posting the school’s strongest results: 78.08% proficiency in English language arts and 71.58% in math. Eighth-grade math was especially strong, exceeding the state result by nearly 33 percentage points. Compared with the Tahoma School District, the school was about even in math, slightly below in overall English language arts, and higher in science. Year-over-year, science improved by 5.57 points, while English language arts declined by 4.32 points and math fell by 1.36 points. Overall, the school appears academically strong, with science and 8th-grade performance as key strengths and English language arts as the main area to monitor.