Summary:
Mabton, Washington, has two public schools serving approximately 734 students across the full K–12 range: Artz Fox Elementary serves kindergarten through sixth grade, while Mabton Junior Senior High serves grades seven through twelve. Both schools are part of the Mabton School District, a small district serving an area where more than 90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. There is no separately listed middle school or additional high school.
The schools have similar enrollments and student-teacher ratios, but their relative strengths differ. Artz Fox enrolls 375 students and has a 17.7-to-1 student-teacher ratio, compared with 359 students and an 18.1-to-1 ratio at Mabton Junior Senior High. In 2025–2026, Artz Fox had slightly stronger all-grade math proficiency than the high school—14.38% versus 11.19%—and was also slightly above the district average. The high school performed better in reported science proficiency, at 16%, compared with 13.24% for the district, while the schools were nearly identical in ELA at about 26%. Math is the clearest shared academic challenge, and both schools remain well below Washington state averages in reported subjects.
The high school’s strongest positive indicator is its 91% graduation rate for 2024–2025, substantially above the statewide rate of 82.6%. Its strongest assessment result was 10th-grade ELA proficiency at 40%, while Artz Fox’s strongest reported result was sixth-grade ELA at 36.54%. Both schools improved their statewide ranking percentiles in the latest year, although they remain near the bottom statewide. Parents should also note that several assessment results are suppressed for privacy and represent unknown values, not zero performance. Overall, the data points to a district with encouraging graduation and recent ranking trends, but with significant needs in math, ELA, and science.
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