Best Public Schools in Concrete, WA

Concrete, Washington, has two public schools serving grades K–12 and about 527 students through the Concrete School District. Concrete Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade, while Concrete High School serves grades 6–12, including middle-school grades. The schools are small and serve a community with significant economic needs, particularly at the high school, where 80.37% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Concrete High School is the stronger school overall based on its recent ranking improvement and current academic results. Its ranking rose from the 14th percentile two years ago to the 45th percentile currently. Notable strengths include 10th-grade English language arts proficiency at 60% and 11th-grade science proficiency at 50%, slightly above the state rate. The high school also has stronger all-grades ELA and science results than Concrete Elementary. However, math remains a major concern, with only 12.61% of students proficient, and the graduation rate of 70.9% is below the state average while the dropout rate is higher. Its smaller classes and lower student-teacher ratio may support individualized attention, but important achievement and completion challenges remain.

Concrete Elementary performs better than the high school in all-grades math, at 18.64%, and shows its strongest reported results in fourth grade, where ELA proficiency is 32.61% and math proficiency is 30.43%. Still, its overall ranking has declined steadily to the 11th percentile, and its latest ELA and science results fell sharply from the prior year. Across both schools, math is the clearest shared weakness, with all subject results below statewide rates except for the high school’s 11th-grade science and near-state 10th-grade ELA. Parents should also note that fifth-grade elementary math and eighth-grade high school math results were suppressed by the state and are unknown, not zero.