Summary:
Taholah High School is the only high school in the Taholah School District, serving grades 9–12 in the small, geographically isolated community of Taholah, Washington. The school has 66 students, a reported student-teacher ratio of 10.4 to 1, and 77.27% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Because there is only one high school in the district, school and district results are generally the same or very similar, and there are no other local high schools for direct comparison.
The school’s small size can provide a low student-teacher ratio, but it also means that a few students can significantly affect yearly percentages and that some results are suppressed for privacy. Reported 2025–26 proficiency was 25% in all-grade English language arts and 25% in science, both higher than the district’s reported results of about 13%, but well below statewide rates of approximately 53% and 51%. Grade 10 English proficiency was 25%, compared with 64.41% statewide, while grade 11 science proficiency was 25%, compared with 48.78% statewide. School math results were suppressed, so they should not be interpreted as zero or used to judge performance.
For families considering the school, the available data show both strengths and challenges. The school reported a 70% graduation rate in 2022–23, compared with a statewide rate of 82.6% in 2024–25; because these figures cover different years, they are not a direct same-year comparison. Its reported 5.5% dropout rate in 2021–22 was lower than the later statewide figure of 9.8%. Per-student spending was high at $32,104 in 2023–24, which is common in very small and remote schools where fixed costs are spread across fewer students. Overall, the school offers a small setting but has low statewide rankings and substantial achievement gaps, making academic support, graduation planning, and family-school communication especially important.
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