The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in English language arts. The lowest is 43% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Whitman Elementary School
Whitman Elementary sits in Lewiston, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade as one of the elementary schools in the Lewiston Independent District. The school draws from a city that functions as the regional hub for the Lewis-Clark Valley, where the Snake and Clearwater Rivers meet. Publicly reported sources describe Lewiston's economy as anchored by agriculture, paper and timber products through Clearwater Paper, ammunition manufacturing, and healthcare at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center. Lewis-Clark State College adds a higher-education presence. The Port of Lewiston, Idaho's only seaport, and the city's role as a gateway to Hells Canyon give the place a distinct civic identity. Transit runs on a small fixed-route bus system, and community events like the Dogwood Festival and Hot August Nights bring periodic street life.
The student body is predominantly white, with smaller Hispanic and multiracial populations and a small number of American Indian or Alaska Native students. A modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The school does not report English learner or special education enrollment figures, so those portions of the picture are absent here.
On state assessments, the most recent Idaho ISAT results show a mixed academic profile. In fourth-grade math, proficiency landed in a moderate range. Fifth-grade English language arts was the strongest result, with most tested students scoring proficient or above. Fifth-grade science sat near the midpoint. For third-grade math and English language arts, and for fourth-grade English language arts and fifth-grade math, the state reported proficiency only as a range rather than a precise figure. These ranged results leave several grades without a clear proficiency point, so a parent looking for a complete grade-by-grade picture may want to follow up with the school or the district.
No trend data across multiple years was available in a form that supports a clean comparison, so it is not possible to say from this information whether results are improving, holding steady, or slipping over time.
Lewiston's housing market sits below the Idaho state benchmark for home values and modestly above the national one, making it relatively affordable compared with the state overall. Rents are moderate relative to income. The broader economy has been described as slowly diversifying, which has helped maintain stability. The city lists several development opportunity sites, including a Business and Technology Park and waterfront land, though no specific new housing developments were identified in publicly reported sources. A reservoir failure caused localized flooding, but the available material does not describe lasting effects on school facilities or neighborhoods.
The district brief turned up little in the way of recently reported changes bearing on families, so there is nothing here to flag by way of boundary shifts, program launches, or closures.
Whitman's prekindergarten program gives families an early-grade entry point within the same building, and the enrollment is distributed across the full prekindergarten-through-fifth-grade span.
For a family weighing this school, the strongest signal in the data is fifth-grade English language arts, where most tested students reached proficiency. Math results are more uneven, with the single precisely reported grade landing in a moderate band. The ranged results in several grades leave gaps, and the available data does not cover staffing, attendance, discipline, or program specifics either. A parent deciding whether Whitman fits might ask the school how it supports math progression from third through fifth grade, what early literacy looks like in the years before the tested grades, and what staff and support structures sit behind the classrooms.
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