Best Private Elementary Schools in Spokane
Spokane has no S-tier private elementary schools, but the A-tier is dense and almost entirely Catholic. Five A-tier schools lead: Cataldo Catholic School and St Aloysius Catholic School (both K-8 Catholic parish schools in Spokane proper, the two highest-enrolled Catholic K-8s in the city), the two All Saints Catholic School entries (the data has duplicate PSS records for one of the All Saints campuses; both are A-tier), and Saint George's School — Spokane's only secular independent K-12 and the only IB World School in Eastern Washington. Saint George's sits in A-tier here despite being the regional standout because elementary-specific coverage of independent K-12 schools is thinner than Catholic parish K-8 coverage in the Inland Northwest.
Five B-tier schools follow, dominated by evangelical K-12 systems: Northwest Christian Schools in Colbert, Valley Christian School in Spokane Valley, plus a few smaller Catholic parish schools. The C-tier covers ten schools — smaller religious K-8s, classical Christian programs, and home-school-adjacent academies.
Spokane's private-elementary market is best understood as a Catholic parish K-8 ecosystem with one secular independent (Saint George's) and a deep evangelical Christian K-12 bench. Families who want secular non-IB elementary options have effectively one in-region school, which is a meaningful constraint relative to the King County metro.
A Tier · 4 schools
- 001ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE318 students
- 002CATALDO CATHOLIC SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE312 students
- 003ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL SPOKANE(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE115 students
- 004ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE345 students
B Tier · 5 schools
- 005NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE580 students
- 006VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE494 students
- 007ST THOMAS MORE SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE189 students
- 008ASSUMPTION PARISH SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE184 students
- 009ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · SPOKANE156 students
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