Summary:
Goldendale School District has one high school, Goldendale High School, serving grades 9–12 in the small community of Goldendale, Washington. The school enrolls 322 students, has a student-teacher ratio of 21.9 to 1, and serves a community where 64.91% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Because it is the district’s only high school, its results represent the district’s high-school profile.
Goldendale High School has several encouraging strengths. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 84.0%, slightly above Washington’s 82.6% rate. In 2025–2026, science proficiency reached 56.25%, exceeding both the district’s 38.95% and the state’s 50.95%. English language arts proficiency was 51.43%, well above the district result of 34.3% and close to the state rate of 52.81%. These results suggest that students are generally graduating at a solid rate and that science is a particularly successful subject. The school’s small size may also mean that results can change noticeably from year to year as different student groups move through high school.
The clearest concern is mathematics. Only 17.14% of students were proficient in math in 2025–2026, compared with 22.65% districtwide and 43.11% statewide. Math proficiency also fell 13.74 percentage points from the previous year, while ELA declined 7.14 points. Science improved by 8.42 points during the same period. Parents may want to ask about math staffing, tutoring, Algebra readiness, attendance, course completion, and credit-recovery supports. The reported 10.0% dropout rate for 2023–2024 is another measure worth monitoring, although it comes from a different year than the graduation data. Overall, the school is not uniformly weak: graduation, science, and district-relative ELA performance are positive, while math requires the most urgent attention.
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