Summary:
ZIP code 99111 has one elementary school, Leonard M Jennings Elementary, serving kindergarten through sixth grade in the Colfax area, with 270 students, a 15.1-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and strong academic results compared with Washington schools overall.
Leonard M Jennings Elementary is a high-performing school and the only elementary option in the ZIP code, so there are no local school-to-school comparisons. In 2025–2026, 68.03% of students were proficient in English language arts and 72.11% were proficient in math. The school’s math rate was 9.74 percentage points higher than the Colfax School District rate and 29 percentage points higher than the Washington average. English performance was nearly identical to the district, but 15.22 points above the state average. The school ranked at about the 85th percentile statewide, while the Colfax School District ranked in the 90th percentile.
Third grade was especially strong, with 80.56% proficiency in English language arts and 88.89% in math; the third-grade math result was 35.69 points above the state average. Reported fifth- and sixth-grade English results also exceeded state rates, as did sixth-grade math. However, several results, including fourth-grade English, fourth- and fifth-grade math, and science results, were suppressed and cannot be interpreted as either strong or weak performance. Compared with the prior year, overall English proficiency declined 3.30 points and math declined 4.05 points, though both remained well above state averages. Families should view the school as a strong academic option, particularly for math, while recognizing that recent results show a modest year-over-year dip and do not provide complete information for every grade and subject.
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