Summary:
ZIP code 99025 has one listed public school, East Farms STEAM School, an elementary school serving prekindergarten through sixth grade in the East Valley School District (Spokane).
East Farms STEAM School enrolls 387 students, so families in this ZIP have one primary public-school option rather than several schools to compare. In 2025–26, about 40% of students were proficient in English Language Arts, 33% in math, and 36% in science. These results were below district averages of 44%, 37%, and 43%, respectively, and below Washington averages of 53%, 43%, and 51%. Fourth-grade ELA was the school’s strongest comparative result, with 41.3% proficiency—slightly above the district’s 39.4%. Fifth grade was the biggest concern: ELA proficiency was 34.1%, math was 27.9%, and fifth-grade science was 36.4%, all well below state results. Third-grade math was also notably weak, at 33.3% compared with 44.2% districtwide.
The school’s overall performance was fairly stable from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose slightly, math was unchanged, and science declined by about 4.4 percentage points. Its ranking improved from 866th to 812th among Washington schools, but it remained in the 29th percentile with a one-star rating, below its 2023–24 position. The reported student-teacher ratio is 15.5 to 1, and 65.37% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–25, indicating substantial economic need in the student population. Reported spending was $20,907 per student. Parents may want to ask about fifth-grade instruction, math intervention in grades three and five, the recent science decline, and how the school’s relatively favorable staffing ratio is being used to support learning.
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