Summary:
Mary Walker School District has one high school, Mary Walker High School, serving grades 9–12 in Springdale, Washington. The school enrolls 151 students and has a student-teacher ratio of 19.6 to 1. With nearly 69% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, the school serves a community with substantial economic needs. Because it is the district’s only high school, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful benchmarks are the district, Washington state, and the school’s own results over time.
Academic performance is mixed, with English language arts showing the clearest improvement. In 2025–2026, 43.33% of students were proficient in ELA, 8.18 percentage points above the district but 9.48 points below the state. ELA proficiency rose substantially from 28.89% the previous year. Science was a concern: 27.03% of students were proficient, slightly below the district’s 28.83% and well below the state’s 50.95%; science performance also declined from the prior year. The school’s math results were suppressed, so its math proficiency cannot be fairly judged from the available data. Among 10th graders, ELA proficiency was 43.33%, below both the district and state, while 11th-grade science was nearly identical to the district but far below Washington’s result.
The school’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 80%, modestly below the district’s 83% and the state’s 82.6%. Its reported 2021–2022 dropout rate was 9%, better than the district’s 10.2%, although the available state figure comes from a different year. The school’s statewide ranking improved from the prior year, moving from the 7th to the 15th percentile and rising to one star, but it remains in the lower tier of Washington high schools. For families, the main positives are improving ELA results, relatively solid completion outcomes, and a lower comparable dropout rate; the main priorities are science improvement, continued support for 10th-grade ELA, and obtaining clearer multi-year math data.
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