Summary:
ZIP code 98136 has one listed elementary school, Gatewood Elementary School, serving about 400 students in kindergarten through fifth grade in the West Seattle area. The school is part of Seattle School District No. 1 and offers a student-teacher ratio of 17.3 to 1. Since there is no second elementary school in the ZIP code for comparison, parents will need to evaluate Gatewood against district and statewide results.
Gatewood’s latest academic results are strong across all reported subjects. In 2025–2026, 74.74% of students were proficient in English language arts, compared with 68.13% districtwide and 52.81% statewide. Math proficiency was 72.11%, above the district’s 60.24% and the state’s 43.11%. Science was the school’s strongest area, with 82.09% proficiency—17.08 percentage points above the district and 31.14 points above Washington overall. Fifth-grade results were especially notable: 80.6% were proficient in ELA and 82.09% in science. Fourth-grade ELA, at 61.4%, was slightly below the district rate, while fifth-grade math, at 61.19%, was lower than Gatewood’s fourth-grade math result but still above district and state levels. Some third-grade results were suppressed and cannot be evaluated.
The school has improved substantially in recent years. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, proficiency increased by 9.66 points in ELA, 4.91 points in math, and 18.60 points in science. Gatewood ranked 45th of 238 schools in the district, placing it in the 81st percentile, and its statewide standing rose from the 79th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 92nd percentile in 2025–2026, when it received five stars. The reported free- or reduced-price lunch rate was 12.5%, and per-student spending was $19,070 in 2023–2024. Overall, Gatewood appears to be a high-performing, improving school, with science and fifth-grade achievement as major strengths and fourth-grade ELA and fifth-grade math as useful areas to monitor.
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