Summary:
Longview School District includes five high-school-level schools and programs serving students in the Longview, Washington, area, including two traditional high schools, a grades 6–12 virtual academy, and two small alternative programs. The schools enroll about 2,040 students altogether, with R A Long High School and Mark Morris High School accounting for about 90% of enrollment. For most families seeking a conventional high-school experience, these two schools provide the most comparable options.
R A Long High School has the strongest overall profile, with a 92.6% graduation rate, a 2.6% dropout rate, the district’s highest current ranking, and the best reported ELA, math, and science results among the larger schools. Mark Morris High School is nearly identical in graduation performance at 92.7%, but has a higher dropout rate and weaker science and math results. Across both schools, math is the clearest academic challenge: proficiency is below the state level even though graduation rates are strong. Mark Morris did improve substantially in ELA, but its science proficiency declined notably year over year.
Longview Virtual Academy showed meaningful year-over-year gains, especially in ELA, but its 68.0% graduation rate, 16.67% math proficiency, and high reported student-teacher ratio indicate continuing challenges with achievement and completion. Discovery High School has a 76.0% graduation rate, while current assessment results are suppressed. Discovery High School-Achieve is the most urgent concern, reporting a 13.1% graduation rate and 77.3% dropout rate. Because these programs are small and specialized, parents should compare them using program goals, student supports, credit completion, attendance, and individual student counts, while treating suppressed results as unknown rather than as zero.
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