Summary:
Wapato School District has two middle-school programs serving grades 6–8 in the Wapato area: the traditional Wapato Middle School and the small online Wapato Online Academy 6-8. Together, they enroll 745 students, but nearly all—737 students, or about 99%—attend Wapato Middle School.
Wapato Middle School is the primary option for local middle-school families and offers in-person instruction for grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, 24.51% of students were proficient in English language arts, 12.29% in math, and 18.48% in science. These results were below Washington averages, with math the clearest concern. Seventh-grade math was especially low at 9.17%, while English language arts improved each year from sixth through eighth grade, reaching 27.70% in eighth grade. The school did improve from the previous year in all three subjects, including a 5.22-point gain in English language arts. Science was a modest relative strength because the school’s result was slightly above the district rate, although it remained well below the state level.
Families should also know that Wapato Middle School serves a community with substantial economic need: 88.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Its reported student-teacher ratio is 18.6 to 1, and spending is listed at $19,086 per student. The school’s statewide ranking improved recently, but it remains near the bottom statewide. The online academy has only eight students, and its achievement results are suppressed for privacy, so it cannot be fairly compared academically with the traditional school. Overall, the available data point to gradual improvement but continued need for support, particularly in middle-grade math.
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