The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in Math. The lowest is 47% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Maple Grove Primary
Maple Grove Primary is a regular public school in the Battle Ground School District, serving kindergarten through fourth grade. It is a single neighborhood elementary school, not a magnet or charter. Because it serves only the early elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and the school does not offer the kind of advanced coursework or career pathways a parent would find at a secondary school. The building sits in Battle Ground, a suburb in Clark County that public sources describe as the commercial and social center of north Clark County, with a downtown core where state routes intersect, a growing wine industry, and a network of parks and open space. The city’s population has grown steadily, and the district itself is the region’s major school system.
The student body at Maple Grove is majority white, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller shares of Asian, Black, multiracial, and Indigenous students. About half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school above the midpoint among its peers in terms of economic need, though the district brief carries important context: voters rejected the district’s attempt to replace an expiring Educational Programs & Operations levy in 2025, leading to budget cuts for the following school year, and as of early 2026 Battle Ground was the only district in southwest Washington without that levy in place. This means that compared to neighboring districts, Maple Grove operates with a leaner local funding base for programs and staffing.
The school’s academic performance on the Washington state assessment, the SBAC, provides a mixed picture. In math, the school has a core of strength: fourth graders posted a proficiency rate that was solidly above the midpoint among the district’s elementary schools, and third graders were close to the middle of the pack. In English language arts, the story is softer. Third graders were well below the halfway mark in proficiency, a weak point worth a parent’s attention. Fourth graders rebounded to a rate that sits near the middle of the range for the district. Fifth grade scores for both subjects, as well as fifth grade science results, were suppressed in the data, so no conclusion about that grade level is possible. The overall proficiency index for Maple Grove, which averages across all tested grades and subjects, lands it above the midpoint among elementary schools in the district, but the gap between its stronger math results and its weaker early literacy results is notable. A parent may want to ask the school directly what reading interventions or supports are available for younger students.
The school’s enrollment is small for a primary school, and its grade configuration is standard for the district. The housing market in the zip code around the school is expensive relative to national benchmarks, with home values that are close to the state average and rents that are high for the region. A family looking to buy in the area should expect a substantial monthly payment, and the math of rent versus mortgage tilts strongly toward renting, as the estimated cost of owning outpaces local rents by a wide margin.
Overall, Maple Grove Primary presents as a school where the academic picture depends on the grade and subject. Math performance is a relative strength, and the school holds its own in fourth grade English, but early reading results are a clear soft spot. The bigger challenge a family should weigh is the district’s funding situation, which has left Maple Grove and its sister schools with reduced local resources compared to neighboring districts. That context may be as important as the test scores for understanding what this school can offer day to day.
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