Summary:
Springdale, Washington has one high school, Mary Walker High School, serving grades 9–12 with about 151 students in the Mary Walker School District. The school is small and serves a community where 68.87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, an important factor for parents considering student support and resources. The student-teacher ratio is 19.6:1, and spending was reported at $18,726 per student in 2023–2024.
Mary Walker High School shows its strongest academic results in English Language Arts. In 2025–2026, 43.33% of students were proficient, higher than the Mary Walker School District rate of 35.15%, though below Washington’s 52.81%. This was a notable improvement from 28.89% the prior year. Science is a larger concern: 27.03% of students were proficient, nearly matching the district but well below the statewide rate of 50.95%. School-level math results were suppressed because of the small number of students tested, so parents should not interpret the missing figure as zero or as a definite sign of weak performance. The school’s 80% graduation rate was slightly below the district’s 83% and the state’s 82.6%.
Recent rankings suggest some improvement in relative standing: Mary Walker High School rose to the 15th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the 7th percentile the year before, although it remains below most Washington high schools. An earlier 2021–2022 dropout rate of 9% was lower than the district’s 10.2%, but the figures are from different years than the graduation data. Parents should view the school’s small size as both a potential benefit for personal attention and a reason to interpret year-to-year results cautiously, since individual student groups can significantly affect reported percentages.
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