Summary:
ZIP code 98109 has two elementary schools in Seattle—John Hay Elementary School serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and Queen Anne Elementary serving kindergarten through grade 5—both operated by Seattle School District No. 1.
For parents comparing schools, Queen Anne has the stronger academic profile by a wide margin. In 2025–2026, 84.42% of students were proficient in English language arts, 78.48% in math, and 76.92% in science. Those results were well above both district and Washington averages, and the school ranked 86th out of 1,138 elementary schools statewide, placing it in the 92nd percentile with five stars. Queen Anne has also remained among the state’s highest-ranked schools in recent years. Several grade-level results were suppressed to protect student privacy, so those figures should be viewed as unavailable rather than low.
John Hay Elementary School is larger, enrolling 257 students compared with Queen Anne’s 159, and its latest results were more mixed: 54.9% proficiency in English language arts, 53.4% in math, and 61.76% in science. However, John Hay showed meaningful recent improvement, especially in science, which rose nearly 26 percentage points from the prior year, while math also improved. Science was its strongest current subject and came relatively close to the district average. John Hay ranked in the 67th percentile statewide, up from the 53rd percentile the year before. The schools had similar student-teacher ratios, but John Hay reported a higher free-or-reduced-price lunch rate and higher per-student spending, providing useful context when comparing outcomes without establishing a cause. Overall, Queen Anne is the clear choice based on current academic performance, while John Hay’s recent science and math gains are encouraging.
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