Pateros School District

Pateros School District serves about 231 students in two small schools in the Pateros area: Pateros Elementary serves kindergarten through sixth grade, while Pateros High School serves grades seven through twelve. The district has a rural, small-school setting, with roughly 118 elementary students and 113 high-school students, and both schools serve a relatively high-need student population.

The two schools have different academic strengths. Pateros Elementary performed better in mathematics than in English language arts during 2025–2026: 35.48% of students were proficient in math, compared with 26.19% districtwide, although the result remained below the 43.11% statewide rate. Fourth grade was the clearest bright spot, with ELA and math results approximately at or above state levels. However, third-grade math was much weaker, and elementary math declined substantially from the previous year. Parents may want to ask how the school is supporting early math skills and maintaining the stronger fourth-grade performance.

Pateros High School was strongest in ELA, with 53.03% proficient—slightly above the state and nearly five points above the district. Its student-teacher ratio was also lower than the elementary school’s, at 11.9 compared with 14.9. The main concern is mathematics: only 17.19% of students were proficient, compared with 43.11% statewide. High-school science was above the district but declined from the prior year and remained below the state. Historical graduation and dropout figures were encouraging, though they come from an earlier year. Because enrollment is small, grade-level percentages can shift noticeably when only a few students’ results change; suppressed results should be considered unknown rather than low.