Summary:
Tahoma Senior High School is the only high school listed in the Tahoma School District, serving grades 9–12 in Maple Valley, Washington. The school enrolls 2,919 students and is one of the stronger high schools in the state, ranking 40th out of 396 schools for 2025–2026 and placing in the 90th percentile with a five-star rating. The district also ranks highly statewide, placing 10th out of 238 districts.
The school’s clearest academic strength is English Language Arts, where 84.17% of students were proficient in 2025–2026. That result was 12.09 percentage points above the district average and 31.36 points above the Washington average. Math proficiency was 55.80%, and science proficiency was 59.68%. Both were above state averages, although both trailed the district: math by 7.76 points and science by 10.46 points. Science is therefore the largest area where the school has room to catch up with district performance. Encouragingly, all three subjects improved from the prior year, with math showing the largest gain at 2.49 percentage points.
Parents may also value the school’s strong completion outcomes. The graduation rate was 93.4%, matching the district and exceeding the state rate of 82.6%. The dropout rate was 4.4%, less than half the statewide rate of 9.8%. These results suggest that most students remain enrolled and graduate successfully. The school has a student-teacher ratio of 23.9 to 1, serves a large high school population, and reports spending of $16,535 per student. Its rankings have remained consistently strong over the past three years, ranging from the 87th to 91st percentile statewide, indicating sustained performance rather than a one-year result.
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