Summary:
ZIP code 98261, which includes the Lopez Island community, has one elementary school: Lopez Elementary School, serving students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The school enrolls 91 students and is part of the Lopez Island School District, so families will not find another elementary school in the ZIP code for comparison.
Lopez Elementary School offers a relatively small-school setting, with a reported student-teacher ratio of 10.5 to 1. Per-student spending was $29,149 in 2023–2024, although higher spending can partly reflect the costs of operating a small, geographically isolated school. About 57% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, an important part of the school’s overall context. In 2025–2026, 46.67% of students were proficient in English language arts and 31.11% were proficient in math. Those results were below both district and Washington averages, with math showing the largest gap. The school’s science result was suppressed, so it cannot be fairly assessed.
Results have varied from year to year. English language arts proficiency fell from 55.32% in 2024–2025 to 46.67% in 2025–2026, while math improved from 22.92% to 31.11% but remained below state performance. Available grade-level results were mixed: fifth-grade ELA proficiency was nearly identical to the state rate, while sixth-grade ELA and math were lower. Several grade-level results were suppressed because of small-group sizes and should be treated as unknown, not zero. The school’s statewide ranking also declined from the 79th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 47th percentile in 2025–2026. For parents, the main areas to monitor are math achievement, the recent ELA decline, and upper-grade performance, while recognizing that results at a school this small can fluctuate considerably between cohorts.
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