Summary:
ZIP code 98936 has one listed school, Moxee Elementary, serving kindergarten through fifth grade in the Moxee area and enrolling 515 students. As the only school in the ZIP code, it cannot be compared with other local schools, so the most useful comparisons are with the East Valley School District (Yakima) and Washington state.
Moxee Elementary’s strongest academic areas are math and science. In 2025–2026, 53.94% of students were proficient in math, compared with 38.65% in the district and 43.11% statewide. Science proficiency was 62.03%, exceeding the district by 12.63 percentage points and the state by 11.08 points. Math performance was above both comparison groups in every reported grade, making it a consistent schoolwide strength. English language arts was more mixed: the overall rate was 51.45%, close to the district’s 51.65% and slightly below the state’s 52.81%. Third-grade ELA was the main weakness at 42.11%, while fourth- and fifth-grade results were above district and state levels.
The school’s recent trends are generally positive. Science proficiency increased by 4.30 percentage points from the prior year, math rose by 1.39 points, and the school’s ranking improved to 398th of 1,138 Washington elementary schools, placing it in the 65th percentile. Moxee has maintained a three-star rating over the past three years. The student-teacher ratio is 17.8 to 1, and 64.85% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, indicating that the school serves a community with considerable economic need. Overall, Moxee is an upper-middle-ranked elementary school with notable math and science strengths; early-grade reading and English language arts are the clearest areas for continued attention.
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