Summary:
Zip code 98294 is served by a single public elementary school — Sultan Elementary School, a K–5 campus with 676 students in Sultan, Washington, part of the Sultan School District.
Because there is only one elementary school in this zip code, there is no local comparison group, so Sultan Elementary School can only be measured against its district and the state. Its standout subject is math: 55.48% of all tested students met the standard in 2025–2026, which is 17.30 points above the Sultan School District (38.18%) and 12.37 points above Washington (43.11%). Every tested grade is above both benchmarks, with 4th-grade math at 59.63% — more than 10 points above the state. Science is also a strength at 59.00% proficient, 10.45 points above district and 8.05 points above state. English language arts is the relative soft spot: at 50.48%, the school is 4.08 points above its district but 2.33 points below the state average, with 4th and 5th grades below state while 3rd grade is above.
Looking at trends, the school peaked in 2024–2025 with 4 stars and a 71st-percentile state rank, then moved to 3 stars and the 64th percentile in 2025–2026, still slightly above the district's 60th percentile. Proficiency dipped year over year in all three subjects — ELA by 6.40 points, math by 4.02, and science by 0.65 — though math and science remain well above district and state benchmarks. For context, 40.53% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending was $19,775, and the student-teacher ratio was 16.9. Note that these figures come from different school years and compare grade-level cohorts rather than the same students, so they offer background rather than direct explanations.
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