Summary:
Forks, Washington, has six schools serving students across grades K–12, including two elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and two alternative programs. Five schools are part of Quillayute Valley School District, while Queets-Clearwater Elementary belongs to the separate Queets-Clearwater School District. The area serves many students facing economic challenges, and results vary considerably by school and instructional model.
Forks High School is the strongest overall traditional school in several measures, with an 84.5% graduation rate, 59.38% ELA proficiency, and a dropout rate matching the state average. Its ranking also improved substantially, from the 5th to the 30th percentile over two years. However, science is a major concern, falling to 17.07%. Forks Elementary School is the area’s strongest math performer, with 42.64% proficiency—nearly equal to the state average—and showed a notable year-over-year math improvement. Forks Middle School has improved recently but remains weaker overall, especially in math, where proficiency is 13.33%.
Insight School of Washington enrolls 2,841 students, roughly three-quarters of the listed enrollment, so its results strongly affect the area-wide picture. Its math proficiency is only 6.93%, with a 46.6% graduation rate and 27.7% dropout rate; comparisons should account for its large alternative and online-school model. The smaller District Run Home School has relatively solid math and science results, though small enrollment and suppressed data limit conclusions. Assessment results for Queets-Clearwater Elementary are suppressed, so its academic performance cannot be fairly evaluated. Overall, the clearest priorities are middle-school and alternative-school math, high-school science, and graduation outcomes at Insight.
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