Best Middle Schools in Forks, WA

Forks, Washington, has one middle school serving grades 5–8: Forks Middle School, a 237-student school in the small community of Forks and part of the Quillayute Valley School District. Because it is the only middle school in the city, families do not have nearby school-to-school options to compare within Forks. The school is located at 121 South Spartan Avenue and serves students across four grades.

For parents reviewing academic results, science is the school’s strongest subject relative to its district. In 2025–2026, 29.06% of students were proficient in science, compared with 26.19% districtwide. English Language Arts proficiency was 33.33%, while math was substantially lower at 13.33%, compared with 24.54% across the district. Sixth-grade ELA was a notable bright spot: 46.43% of students were proficient, matching the district and coming close to Washington’s 48.27%. The school also exceeded or matched district results in several individual grade-subject areas, including 5th- and 8th-grade ELA, 6th-grade math, 8th-grade math, and 8th-grade science. The clearest academic concern is math, especially 5th-grade math at 8.62% proficiency and 7th-grade math at 9.43%.

The school’s 2025–2026 results were below Washington averages in every reported subject, although its relative ranking improved to the 16th percentile, or 433rd out of 514 schools, up from the 6th percentile the prior year. Raw proficiency changed little in ELA but declined in math and science, so the improved ranking does not necessarily mean that absolute achievement rose. About 65.82% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, providing important economic context for families evaluating the school. The reported student-teacher ratio is 9.7:1, and spending was $20,811 per student in 2023–2024. Overall, parents may want to ask about math intervention, grade-specific support, and how the school’s comparatively stronger science and sixth-grade ELA practices are being used across classrooms.