Summary:
ZIP code 98329 has one listed school, Minter Creek Elementary, serving kindergarten through fifth grade with 272 students in the Peninsula School District; no middle or high schools are included in this ZIP-code listing.
For families focused on elementary education, Minter Creek has a generally strong profile compared with Washington schools overall. In 2025–2026, 58.54% of students met standards in English language arts, 50.82% in math, and 65.22% in science. Those results were above the state averages in all three subjects, by 5.73, 7.71, and 14.27 percentage points, respectively. Science is the clearest strength: Minter Creek was nearly even with the district average and well above the state result. English language arts also improved by grade, rising from 48.57% in third grade to 65.22% in fifth grade. The school has a 16.1-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and reported per-student spending was $19,445 in 2023–2024.
The main area for parents to watch is math. Overall math performance fell 5.48 percentage points from the prior year, and fourth-grade math was especially weak compared with both the district and state. Minter Creek trailed the district average in ELA, math, and science, but this reflects the particularly high performance of the Peninsula district; the school still exceeded statewide averages in every subject. Its broader ranking has improved substantially, moving from the 66th percentile and three stars in 2023–2024 to the 78th percentile and four stars in 2025–2026. With no other listed schools in the ZIP code, the most useful comparisons are with district and state results rather than with neighboring schools.
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