The top reported proficiency rate is 37% in English language arts. The lowest is 33% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Grant Elementary
Grant Elementary sits in Ephrata, the county seat of Grant County, a community that blends government and agricultural roots. The city houses the Grant County Courthouse, the Grant County Public Utility District headquarters, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Columbia River District office, giving it a civic-administrative core. Surrounding farmland, irrigated by the Columbia Basin Project, produces wheat, alfalfa, and apples. The economy draws on county government, the school district, healthcare, and agriculture-related businesses. Housing values in the area are below the state median, and the town has seen steady, modest population growth described by local officials as slow and driven by quality of life and low cost of living. The district serves the city, and the school’s location near the historic downtown grid, centered on the courthouse and city hall, means the campus is integrated into the town rather than set apart. Amtrak’s Empire Builder stops in Ephrata, and the Grant Transit Authority runs bus connections to nearby Soap Lake and Moses Lake.
Grant Elementary serves students from preschool through fourth grade, making it an early-elementary feeder for the Ephrata School District. Its enrollment is relatively small for a public school and is split almost evenly between white students and Hispanic students, with small populations of students who are Asian, Black, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or of two or more races. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic need in the student body. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those supports.
State testing results are available for the 2024-25 school year for third and fourth graders, since those are the tested grades in this grade band. In English language arts, about half of third graders met proficiency, while the share was roughly a quarter for fourth graders. In math, just over a third of third graders and just under a third of fourth graders tested as proficient. These results place the school’s overall proficiency across subjects and grades below the midpoint when compared to other school districts in Grant County. Because only one year of state data was reported, there is no trend line to see whether performance is improving or declining. A parent may want to discuss with the school how it supports students who arrive below grade level and what interventions are in place.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. Information on discipline, course access, staffing ratios, chronic absenteeism, and special education services was not available in the data provided. For a family considering Grant Elementary, the profile is relatively straightforward: a small, neighborhood-style early elementary school in a low-density, agricultural-and-government town, where a clear majority of students come from households with lower incomes, and where state test scores are moderate in third grade and lower in fourth grade compared to county peers. The district brief turned up no recent major changes, so the school appears to be operating in a stable institutional environment.
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