Wahluke School District

Wahluke School District serves about 2,326 students in six schools spanning kindergarten through 12th grade, with campuses serving the Mattawa area and a generally high-need student population.

The district includes three elementary schools, one junior high, and two high schools. Wahluke High School is the strongest conventional academic performer: it has the district’s highest reported ELA, math, and science proficiency rates among regular schools, along with a 90.3% graduation rate and a 5.8% dropout rate. Its graduation results are better than both the district and state averages, although achievement remains below state levels, especially in math and science. Wahluke Junior High has comparatively favorable staffing, with a 17.5 student-teacher ratio, and performs somewhat better than the district in ELA and math. Among elementary schools, Morris Schott Elementary is close to the district average in math, while Saddle Mountain Elementary reports the lowest available ELA and math results.

Mattawa Elementary serves kindergarten only and has the district’s lowest student-teacher ratio, but no kindergarten assessment results are provided. Sentinel Technical Alt School reports an unusually strong 60% science proficiency rate, though its small enrollment makes comparisons uncertain; its 62.5% graduation rate, 20.8% dropout rate, and 36-to-1 student-teacher ratio indicate significant completion and staffing challenges. Across the district, roughly nine in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The most important improvement priorities are early literacy and math, middle-school math, science instruction, and graduation support for students in the alternative program. Recent declines in several subjects also make continued progress monitoring important.