Summary:
Selah, Washington, has eight schools serving about 3,771 students from prekindergarten through grade 12, including traditional elementary, middle, and high schools as well as online and alternative programs. The schools are part of the Selah School District, and enrollment is concentrated at Selah High School, Selah Middle School, and Selah Intermediate School. More than half of students at many schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, an important context when comparing academic results and available support.
Selah Intermediate School has the strongest academic profile among the schools with current assessment results. It posted the highest math and science proficiency rates, at 39.64% and 43.22%, and its ranking improved to the 32nd percentile. Selah Middle School was stronger in science than in math or English language arts, with science proficiency reaching 40.99%; its ranking also improved. Math is the clearest districtwide challenge, especially at Selah High School, where only 18.70% of students were proficient. Still, the high school had an excellent 97.7% graduation rate and a very low 1.1% dropout rate, well above the district and state benchmarks.
Families considering younger grades should note that John Campbell Primary School, serving grades 1–2, reports the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.6, while Robert Lince Early Learning Center serves prekindergarten and kindergarten and has higher reported per-student spending. The online and alternative programs—Selah High School Online, Selah K-8 Online, and Selah Open Doors—are much smaller, and many test results are suppressed, so comparisons are limited. Overall, the district shows improving rankings and promising intermediate and middle school science results, but math—particularly the transition into high school—deserves close attention.
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