Summary:
Zip code 58282 has two North Border-Walhalla Elementary and North Border-Walhalla High schools in Walhalla, serving pre-K through grade 8 and grades 9–12, with no separate middle school. The clearest difference is the elementary school’s stronger 2025–26 math and reading results: its lower reported proficiency bound was at least 21 percentage points above the high school’s upper bound in math and 2 points higher in reading.
North Border-Walhalla Elementary stands out in all-grades math and reading: math was 80–88%, compared with 30–59% at the high school, and reading was 70–78%, compared with 50–68%. Against the state, elementary results were 26–34 points higher in math, 13–21 points higher in reading, and 1–19 points higher in science. The high school’s results are less clear-cut: its proficiency bands include outcomes both below and above the state in all three subjects. Its 89% graduation rate was 2 points above the state’s 87% and 0.4 points below the district’s 89.3%.
The elementary school’s overall results remain above the state, though its advantage has narrowed in reading and science since 2024–25: math’s state gap grew by 3–11 points, while reading’s narrowed by 8–16 points and science’s by 2–20 points. A notable grade-level exception is grade 8 science, under 40% compared with 43% statewide; grade 4 reading was at least 90% versus 59% statewide. SchoolDigger ranked the elementary school 3rd of 216 schools in 2025–26, at the 99th percentile; the high school’s ranking has varied, from 14th of 125 in 2022–23 to 54th of 129 in 2025–26. In 2024–25, enrollment was 128 at the elementary school and 59 at the high school, with student–teacher ratios of 6.7 and 4.7. Both reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–25: 30% at the elementary school and 31% at the high school. The broad high-school proficiency bands do not establish whether it is above or below the state in any subject.
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