Summary:
ZIP code 98277 has five elementary schools in Oak Harbor, all part of the Oak Harbor School District; four serve kindergarten through fourth grade, while Oak Harbor Elementary also offers prekindergarten. Together, the schools enroll about 2,070 students, and the district ranks 50th out of 238 Washington districts. Academic performance varies considerably across the area, with one clear standout and four schools showing more mixed results.
Hillcrest Elementary is the strongest school by a wide margin. In 2025–2026, 75.66% of students were proficient in both English Language Arts (ELA) and math, compared with 58.14% and 44.04% districtwide. It ranked in the 92nd percentile statewide and maintained a similarly strong ranking the previous year. Oak Harbor Elementary is the next strongest overall, particularly in math, where 57.33% of students were proficient. Its ELA result of 57.05% was close to the district average and above the state rate, although its statewide ranking has declined over recent years.
The other three schools have distinct strengths and areas for improvement. Crescent Harbor Elementary performed better in math than ELA, with 54.19% proficiency in math but 47.78% in ELA. Olympic View Elementary also had stronger math results and improved its statewide ranking substantially in 2025–2026, though its ELA proficiency was the lowest in the group at 47.02%. Broad View Elementary posted the largest ELA improvement, rising 7.63 points, but had the lowest math result at 42.76%, including just 40% proficiency in fourth-grade math. Overall, ELA is the more common challenge, while math performance is generally stronger outside Hillcrest.
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