The reported proficiency rate for English language arts is 40%.
Original Research by School Decision on Wilson Creek Elementary
Wilson Creek Elementary sits in a very small, rural residential town in Grant County, surrounded by basalt bluffs along Crab Creek. The town has a quiet, familiar feel, with civic life centered on Railroad Street, where Town Hall, the historical museum, and the town park are located. The population has been on a long, gradual decline over the past century. Housing and development have been minimal, and the area remains stable rather than growing. For a family considering this school, the setting is a key part of the experience: compact, isolated, and deeply rooted in local history.
The school serves kindergarten through sixth grade and is a regular public school within the Wilson Creek School District. The building is one part of a district that provides K-12 education for the community, and given the town’s small footprint, the elementary school is likely integrated into or very near the town center rather than on a separated campus.
Enrollment is small. The student body is majority white, with a Hispanic population that makes up a notable share and a very small American Indian or Alaska Native population. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
State assessment results are limited. Because the school’s enrollment is so small, Washington state suppresses proficiency data for any group that is too small to report publicly. For most tested grades and subjects, the results are suppressed in both math and English language arts and in fifth-grade science. The only proficiency figure that was reported applies to sixth-grade English language arts, and that figure stands below the midpoint of recorded results for the school. Across all reported subjects and grades, the school’s overall proficiency index lands above the midpoint among districts in Grant County. A parent should be aware that with suppression in place for almost all grade-level results, it is difficult to get a granular sense of academic performance for individual classrooms. The small student population means the school may not have enough tested students in a given grade to produce a publicly reportable result in any given year.
Multi-year trends are not available either; only a single year of data exists, so there is no way to see whether performance has been improving or declining.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate. Program offerings, teacher staffing data, and chronic absenteeism rates were also absent from the available information.
For a family, the main characteristics are clear. Wilson Creek Elementary is a small rural school in a town that is stable and slow-moving, where the peer environment is shaped by the town’s demographics and the community is tight-knit. The suppressed test data means that a parent looking for detailed, transparent academic measures will find the picture incomplete. A conversation with the school or district office would be the most direct way to get a fuller sense of classroom instruction and student progress. The school fits a family that values a very small, rural setting, knows the community, and is comfortable with the limited public performance data that a school of this size can produce.
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