Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 99148

ZIP code 99148 has two elementary schools, both part of the Loon Lake School District in the Loon Lake area: Loon Lake Homelink Program serves grades K–8, while Loon Lake Elementary School serves prekindergarten through grade 6. The schools are next to each other on Maple Street and together enroll 251 students.

For parents focused on academic performance, Loon Lake Homelink Program is the stronger choice based on the available measures. In 2025–26, 50.57% of students were proficient in English language arts and 39.08% in math, compared with 21.15% and 15.38%, respectively, at Loon Lake Elementary School. Homelink ranked 652nd of 1,138 Washington schools, placing it in the 43rd percentile and earning two stars; Loon Lake Elementary ranked 978th, in the 14th percentile, with one star. Homelink’s results were also relatively close to statewide averages, although performance varied by grade. Notable strengths included third-grade ELA and sixth-grade math, while fifth- and seventh-grade math were weaker.

Loon Lake Elementary School showed a significant improvement in science, rising to 41.67% proficiency in 2025–26, but its ELA and math results remained well below state averages. The school reports a lower student-teacher ratio, 10.8 compared with Homelink’s 45.8, though these figures may reflect different program or reporting structures rather than typical class sizes. Loon Lake Elementary also reports a much higher free- or reduced-price lunch rate and higher per-student spending, suggesting different student needs and operating conditions. Because both schools are small, some grade-level results are suppressed and year-to-year changes may be volatile; suppressed figures should be treated as unavailable, not zero.