Best Public Schools in Zip Code 99040

Schools in ZIP code 99040 include four schools serving grades K–12 and about 415 students: Wellpinit Elementary School, Wellpinit Middle School, Wellpinit High School, and the alternative Wellpinit Open Doors High School, all part of Wellpinit School District #49. The schools are small, but achievement and completion results vary considerably by school and subject.

Wellpinit High School has the strongest recent reported academic performance, with 29.17% of students proficient in English language arts in 2025–2026, compared with 18.59% districtwide. Wellpinit Elementary School performed better than the district in mathematics, reporting 12.07% proficiency compared with 5.16% districtwide; its strongest grade-specific result was 33.33% in third-grade math. Wellpinit Middle School had the strongest reported science result, at 20%, also above the district figure of 11.94%. These are relative strengths, however, because all reported results remain below Washington state comparisons. Several math and science results are suppressed, meaning they cannot be treated as zero or used to rank schools reliably.

Wellpinit Open Doors High School requires the closest review of its completion outcomes. In 2024–2025, it reported a 39.2% graduation rate and a 26.5% dropout rate, compared with statewide figures of 82.6% and 9.8%. It also had the highest student-teacher ratio, 30.3:1. Because Open Doors is an alternative program, its students and needs may differ from those at the conventional high school. Overall, parents should view the district’s very low statewide ranking as important context while also recognizing the individual strengths: high-school ELA, elementary math relative to the district, and middle-school science.