Wellpinit School District #49

Wellpinit School District #49 is a small Washington school district serving about 415 students in four schools covering kindergarten through grade 12, including a separate Open Doors program for high school students. The district serves a rural area, and its schools generally have small enrollments and high reported levels of economic need. Together, the two high school programs serve nearly half of all district students.

Wellpinit Elementary School serves grades K–5 and has the district’s strongest reported math result: 12.07% proficiency in 2025–26, including 33.33% in third grade. Its ELA proficiency was 17.54%. Wellpinit Middle School serves grades 6–8 and reported 16% ELA proficiency and 20% science proficiency; its math results were suppressed. Wellpinit High School serves grades 9–12 and had the strongest current ELA result, at 29.17%, although this remained well below the 52.81% statewide rate. Overall, academic results at the regular schools are below state averages, and rankings are very low, so families should consider multi-year trends rather than a single score.

Wellpinit Open Doors High School serves 88 students and has a different program and student profile from the regular high school. Its 2024–25 graduation rate was 39.2%, compared with 82.6% statewide, while its dropout rate was 26.5%, compared with 9.8% statewide. These figures make credit recovery, attendance support, re-engagement, and graduation planning important areas to examine. The school also reported a much higher student-teacher ratio than the other schools. Because many results are suppressed in this small district, missing figures should not be treated as zero; families may want to ask each school about current supports, class sizes, graduation pathways, and student progress.