High Schools in Grandview School District

Grandview School District has two high schools serving grades 9–12 in the Grandview area: Grandview High School, with 1,160 students, and Contract Learning Center, with 34 students. Grandview High School serves nearly all of the district’s high school students and operates as the comprehensive high school, while Contract Learning Center is a small alternative or specialized program. The district is ranked in the lower quarter of Washington districts in the supplied data, but the two schools have notably different enrollment, staffing, and outcome profiles.

Grandview High School has comparatively strong completion results: its 84.3% graduation rate is above both the district and state averages, and its 7.8% dropout rate is below both. English Language Arts is the school’s strongest academic area, with 44.84% proficiency—nearly 9 percentage points above the district rate. However, math is a serious concern: only 9.93% of students were proficient, compared with 35.85% districtwide and 43.11% statewide. Science proficiency was 22.34%, close to the district result but well below the state. ELA proficiency also declined from the previous year, so maintaining progress in reading while improving math and science should be a priority. The school serves a high-need student population, with 81.12% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch.

Contract Learning Center requires a different kind of review because its enrollment is very small and its students may have different academic or credit-completion needs. Its reported graduation rate was 26.6%, while its dropout rate was also 26.6%, far below and above the respective district and state comparisons. The school’s 34-to-1 student-teacher ratio is considerably higher than Grandview High School’s 22.9-to-1 ratio, although program structure and staffing practices may affect this measure. Test results for Contract Learning Center were suppressed, so they should be treated as unavailable rather than as zero. Parents considering these schools should ask about graduation pathways, credit recovery, counseling, attendance supports, and how small-cohort results are calculated.