Summary:
La Center School District serves about 1,823 students across four schools — one elementary (PK–5), one middle (6–8), one high school (9–12), and one K–12 alternative school — in a small Washington district that ranks 49th of 238 districts statewide, in the 79th percentile with a 4-star rating.
La Center High School is the district's academic flagship: 84.33% ELA proficiency versus 52.81% statewide, a 95.4% graduation rate against the state's 82.6%, and a 2.2% dropout rate compared with 9.8% statewide. Its math (40.15%) and science (42.86%) are more modest, with science slipping from 55.15% the prior year. La Center Elementary is the district's biggest improver, climbing from 49th percentile with 2 stars to 76th percentile with 4 stars in three years. Its science score of 70.59% far exceeds the district's 53.69% and the state's 50.95%, and 5th-grade math and ELA also beat state marks, though earlier-grade math and ELA lag.
La Center Middle School is the weakest of the regular schools — 54th percentile with 3 stars, below district and state in all-grade ELA (48.00%), math (37.03%), and science (46.32%) — though 7th-grade math edges above state and 6th- and 8th-grade math beat district averages. La Center Academy, with just 38 students, is not directly comparable; many results are suppressed as "—" and should be read as unknown, not as failure. Its ELA (56.67%) beats district and state, but math fell sharply to 14.81%. District-wide, math is the clearest opportunity at 40.42% versus the state's 43.11%.
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