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Best Public Elementary Schools in Seattle + Eastside

The Seattle and Eastside public elementary leaders cluster on Smarter Balanced (SBA) math and reading proficiency from the 2025-26 administration. The Eastside elementaries dominate the top of the lens: Bellevue, Lake Washington, and Issaquah school districts together account for seven of the top ten, with proficiency rates far above the state median.

Medina Elementary in the Bellevue School District leads the combined list at 97 percent proficient in math and 95 percent in ELA, followed by Christa McAuliffe Elementary in Sammamish (Lake Washington) at 94 percent and Cascade Ridge in Sammamish (Issaquah) at 91 percent. Bellevue places three schools in the top ten (Medina, Jing Mei, Cherry Crest) and Lake Washington three (Christa McAuliffe, Explorer Community School, Horace Mann). Sunrise Elementary in Northshore and Lakeridge Elementary on Mercer Island complete the top ten.

Seattle Public Schools' strongest elementaries sit a tier below. West Woodland in Ballard, at 88 percent averaged across the two subjects, is the highest-ranked SPS school at eleventh, with Frantz Coe in North Queen Anne, McDonald International, John Stanford International, and Greenwood close behind. The SPS leaders cluster north of the Ship Canal; the city's south-end attendance areas do not appear in the top twenty-five.

† OSPI withheld this school's 2025-26 result in one or both subjects under its top/bottom suppression rule; the school's 2024-25 result is used for that subject.

Ranked schools

001MEDINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING96%
002CHRISTA MCAULIFFE ELEMENTARYLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING94%†
003CASCADE RIDGE ELEMENTARYISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING91%
004JING MEI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING91%†
005SOMERSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING91%
006EXPLORER COMMUNITY SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING91%†
007SUNRISE ELEMENTARYNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING90%
008CHERRY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING90%
009HORACE MANN ELEMENTARYLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING90%
010LAKERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING89%
011WEST WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING88%
012SAMANTHA SMITH ELEMENTARYLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING87%
013ENDEAVOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING87%
014LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ELEMENTARYLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING87%
015FRANTZ COE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING87%
016GRAND RIDGE ELEMENTARYISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING86%
017BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARYLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING86%
018ISLAND PARK ELEMENTARYMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING85%
019MCDONALD INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING85%
020LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARYLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING84%
021COUGAR RIDGE ELEMENTARYISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING84%
022GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING84%
023DISCOVERY ELEMENTARYISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING83%
024SUNNY HILLS ELEMENTARYISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING83%
025WEST MERCER ELEMENTARYMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING83%

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