Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 98405

ZIP code 98405 has one middle school: Bryant Montessori Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the Tacoma School District. Located in Tacoma, the school enrolls 135 students and offers a small-school setting, with a reported student-teacher ratio of 5.9. About 48% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, providing useful context about the community the school serves.

Bryant’s strongest academic area is English Language Arts. In 2025–2026, 50.36% of students were proficient in ELA, about 6 percentage points above the district average and close to the Washington average. Science proficiency was 43.18%, slightly above the district but below the state. Sixth grade was the school’s strongest year, with 52.83% proficiency in ELA and 35.85% in math. ELA results were higher than the district average in every grade, although they gradually declined from sixth through eighth grade. Overall, these results suggest that literacy is a relative strength for Bryant compared with other schools in the district.

Math is the most important area for improvement. Overall math proficiency was 27.54%, below both the district’s 31.16% and Washington’s 43.11%. Results were especially low in seventh grade, at 21.43%, and eighth grade, at 23.26%, while sixth grade performed considerably better. The school did improve in every tested subject from the prior year, including a substantial 9.01-point gain in ELA, and its statewide ranking and rating recovered from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Still, Bryant currently ranks 151st of 238 district schools and holds a two-star rating, so families may want to ask about math support, grade-to-grade progress, and how the school is sustaining its recent academic gains.