Summary:
ZIP code 99011 has one public school, Michael Anderson Elementary School, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The school enrolls 459 students and is part of the Medical Lake School District. Because there are no middle or high schools listed in the ZIP code, families will need to look beyond the area for later grades.
Michael Anderson Elementary School shows its strongest results in science and fifth grade. Overall science proficiency was 75% in 2025–2026, compared with 64.27% in the district and 50.95% statewide. Fifth graders also performed especially well, with 77.27% proficient in English language arts, 63.64% in math, and 75% in science. Overall math proficiency was 48.32%, slightly above the district’s 46.87% and meaningfully above the state’s 43.11%. The school has a 14.5-to-1 student–teacher ratio, and 33.12% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025.
Performance is less consistent in third and fourth grades. ELA proficiency was 34.15% in third grade and 42.19% in fourth grade, compared with 77.27% in fifth grade; math results followed a similar pattern, rising from 41.46% in third grade and 42.19% in fourth grade to 63.64% in fifth grade. Overall ELA proficiency was 50.34%, below both the district’s 55.22% and the state’s 52.81%. Math also declined 8.26 percentage points from the prior year, while science remained nearly unchanged at a high level. The school ranked in the 57th percentile statewide in 2025–2026, down from the upper-60th percentile range in the previous two years, but the district ranked in the 76th percentile. For parents, the key picture is a school with standout science and fifth-grade achievement, alongside a need for more consistent ELA and math results in earlier grades.
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