Summary:
ZIP code 98650 has one elementary school, Trout Lake Elementary, serving kindergarten through fourth grade in the rural Trout Lake area. The school enrolls 79 students and is part of the Trout Lake School District, so families are evaluating one small local option rather than choosing among several elementary schools in the ZIP code.
Trout Lake Elementary has a generally strong academic profile. In 2025–2026, 58.82% of students were proficient in both all-grade English language arts and math. ELA performance was 6.01 percentage points above the Washington average, while math was 15.71 points higher than the state rate and 12.08 points above the district rate. Fourth-grade ELA was especially strong at 66.67%, compared with 50.43% statewide. Fourth-grade math proficiency was 50%, essentially matching the state result. The school’s latest student–teacher ratio was 14.6 to 1, and 32.91% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. Per-student spending was $21,959 in 2023–2024, though the supplied data does not include comparable district or state figures.
The clearest strength is math, which has remained well above district and state results across the two most recent years. ELA also remains above the state average, although the school was slightly below its district in 2025–2026. The school ranked in the 71st percentile statewide and earned four stars in 2024–2025, but its ranking has declined from the 88th percentile in 2021–2022. That trend is worth monitoring, while recognizing that small enrollment can make percentages and rankings fluctuate when only a few students change results. Third-grade scores are suppressed, so they should be treated as unavailable rather than as low or zero performance.
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