Summary:
Mount Adams School District has one middle school serving grades 7–8: Mount Adams Middle School in White Swan, Washington. The school enrolls 136 students, so families are looking at a small middle-school setting rather than choosing among several schools within the district. Nearly all students—95.59% in 2024–2025—were reported as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, providing important context when reviewing achievement results. The school reported a 22.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio and $25,588 in spending per student in 2023–2024.
Recent results show some encouraging movement, although overall proficiency remains low. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency rose slightly from 9.23% to 9.84%, math increased from 2.31% to 8.26%, and science improved from 7.25% to 10.53%. Science was the strongest subject in the latest results, followed closely by ELA, while math showed the largest year-over-year gain. Grade-level results differed by subject: 7th-grade ELA proficiency was 12.12%, compared with 7.14% in 8th grade, while 8th-grade math proficiency was 10.71%, compared with 6.15% in 7th grade. Science was reported only for 8th grade.
Even with these gains, the school trailed the district in every subject in 2025–2026: by 3.17 percentage points in ELA, 6.06 in math, and 4.39 in science. The gaps with Washington statewide results were much larger—42.97 points in ELA, 34.85 in math, and 40.42 in science. The school was listed at the bottom of its statewide ranking in each of the three reported years, so recent improvement has not yet changed its relative position. Parents may want to focus on the positive upward trend, while also asking about plans for raising achievement, especially in 8th-grade ELA and 7th-grade math.
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