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Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 98926

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772

Students

Top rankedMorgan Middle School344^th of 534 Washington middle schools

Summary:

Zip code 98926 in Ellensburg, Washington, contains one public middle school, Morgan Middle School, which serves grades 6-8 for the Ellensburg School District.

Morgan Middle School is a moderately sized school of 772 students whose state ranking has shown notable volatility, dropping from the 50th percentile of Washington middle schools in 2023-2024 to the 36th percentile in 2024-2025. Academically, the school's proficiency rates are below both district and state averages across all core subjects, with the most significant gap appearing in science, where the school trails the district average by over 14 percentage points.

Performance varies by grade level, with 7th graders performing closest to district averages in English and math, while 8th-grade math is an area for potential improvement. The school has a student-teacher ratio of 19.4 to 1 and a per-student spending of $14,209. For parents, the analysis suggests the school has specific challenges in science education and year-to-year consistency, but its mixed performance across different grades indicates strengths and weaknesses may be concentrated in particular subjects or cohorts rather than being uniform across the entire school.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				WCAS Science (2025)		SBAC English Language Arts (2025)				SBAC Math (2025)				Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	WCAS Science 8th Grade	WCAS Science All Grades	SBAC English Language Arts 6th Grade	SBAC English Language Arts 7th Grade	SBAC English Language Arts 8th Grade	SBAC English Language Arts All Grades	SBAC Math 6th Grade	SBAC Math 7th Grade	SBAC Math 8th Grade	SBAC Math All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Morgan Middle School	Public	6-8	400 E First	Ellensburg	98926	Kittitas County	Ellensburg School District	No	No	No	Yes	(509) 925-8200	772	40	19.4	42.1%	537 (69.6%)	8 (1.0%)	178 (23.1%)	13 (1.7%)	2 (0.3%)	2 (0.3%)	32 (4.1%)	34.7	344^th of 534 public middle schools	35.6%		46.5	269^th of 535 public middle schools	49.7%	75	35.8	35.8	38.5	47.3	43.5	43.0	31.9	37.7	27.5	32.4	$14,209	$1,111	$13,098

Cities Near Zip Code 98926

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Ellensburg	0.48 mi	12	153^rd
Kittitas	5.51 mi	3	162^nd
Thorp	7.94 mi	1
Naches	19.75 mi	3	140^th
Yakima	20.55 mi	53	216^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Washington State Department of Health and the Washington Office of Superindentent of Public Instruction.

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