Summary:
ZIP code 99224 has one middle school serving grades 6–8: Westwood Middle School, located in the Cheney School District in the Spokane area. The school serves 624 students, so families do not have a within-ZIP school comparison in this data set. The most useful benchmarks are the school’s year-over-year results, the Cheney School District, and Washington state averages.
Westwood Middle School has a mixed academic profile. In 2025–26, 39.84% of students were proficient in English Language Arts and 30.15% in math, compared with 52.81% and 43.11% statewide. Science was the school’s clear strength: 51.06% of students were proficient, slightly above the Washington rate of 50.95% and above the district rate of 46.91%. Science also improved by 6.46 percentage points from the prior year, while ELA declined by 3.16 points and math declined by 1.56 points. The school’s reported student-teacher ratio was 17.8 to 1, and 57.69% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–25.
Grade-level results point to both strengths and priorities. Eighth grade was the strongest overall, exceeding district results in ELA, math, and science; eighth-grade math, at 36.56% proficient, was only about two points below the state rate. Seventh-grade math was the weakest result, with 27.23% proficient compared with 41.31% statewide, while seventh-grade ELA also had a relatively large state gap. The school ranked at about the 40th percentile statewide in both 2024–25 and 2025–26 and received a two-star rating in those years. For parents, the key takeaway is that Westwood offers a notably strong science program and encouraging eighth-grade performance, while literacy and math—especially seventh-grade math—are the most important areas to monitor.
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