Washington State School for the Deaf

The teachers and staff are outstanding. We feel lucky for our students to attend here.

I love Marshall Elementary, and I am so proud to be a teacher at this amazing school! My colleagues at this school work SO HARD to provide the best education to their students! Teachers here put in long hours to help support the educational needs of our students.Students here are working towards our motto this year which is "Be Kind out There!"We have the VERY BEST PTA! They are so involved, organized and helpful!It has been a rough couple of years in education. I have watched this Staff work together and do their very best for their students during these complicated times.Academically, we have improved so much this school year, and will continue to do so! Again, I am proud to be a teacher at Marshall, and a part of the Marshall Community.

Staff and teachers aim to have students and their families feel like they belong . They have diverse after school gatherings . Educators here a really care about their students academics . Highly recommend.

Wonderful! My family has had nothing but positive experiences with Washington Elementary. The staff and administration are highly qualified and go out of their way to make the school like a community.

GreatSchools has done VHC a disservice with this rating. A vital piece of information to mention about this school, right at the very top, is that VHC is a hybrid of campus classes and homeschooling. It's grossly unfair to blame VHC for test scores when their teachers alone aren't responsible for education. We parents who have out children there have accepted half the responsibility, and are supposed to be giving lessons at home as well as the classes they have on campus. If there are parents not doing their half of the job, then they should be held accountable as much as the teachers, if not mores since the teachers are doing their half. There are even some children who don't take any of one class at school, such as no science on campus, because their parents elect to do all of that themselves. This school still offers to assess those students, even though those students' entirely-homeschooled results will reflect on the school where they don't have any part of some classes.This school is a fantastic hybrid for parents who would otherwise entirely homeschool, myself included, and I guarantee you that the students on this school are faring much better than they would if they were educated entirely at home without the guidance of professionals.VHC rocks, and I wish programs like this were available in more places, and that GreatSchools would be honest about this school.

Success Academy is a tailored learning option for middle and high school students who have had difficulties adapting in the general public school environment. Students enjoy low student to staff ratios, dedicated delivery of behavioral and social emotional learning, and qualified and professional teachers from diverse backgrounds. While some students attend on a flexible in person schedule, others participate online as needed, but all with full support of the Success Academy staff.