Summary:
ZIP code 99040 has one elementary school, Wellpinit Elementary School, serving kindergarten through fifth grade in the rural Wellpinit area. The school enrolls 136 students and is part of Wellpinit School District #49. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP code, families cannot compare it with another local elementary school and must primarily consider its results relative to the district and Washington statewide averages.
Wellpinit Elementary reports low proficiency compared with statewide results, although its performance varies by subject. In 2025–2026, 17.54% of students were proficient in English language arts, compared with 52.81% statewide. Math proficiency was 12.07%, below the 43.11% state average but 6.91 percentage points higher than the district’s 5.16%. Grade-level results show 33.33% proficiency in third-grade math, 17.65% in fourth-grade math, and 25.93% in fifth-grade ELA; each was below the corresponding state rate. Several results, including school-level science and some grade-level scores, were suppressed and should be treated as unknown rather than zero.
The school serves a high-need student population, with 88.97% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Its 8.9-to-1 student-teacher ratio is low, and reported spending is $37,329 per student, though higher costs may reflect the challenges of operating a small, rural school. Recent trends are mixed: ELA proficiency declined slightly by 1.13 points from the prior year, while math fell 6.85 points. The school’s statewide ranking improved in absolute terms, from 1,128th of 1,168 schools in 2023–2024 to 1,075th of 1,138 in 2025–2026, but its latest position remained at the 6th percentile. Small grade cohorts may cause year-to-year results to vary noticeably.
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