Concrete High School

Concrete High School is a small public school serving 219 students in grades 6–12 in the rural community of Concrete, Washington. It is part of the Concrete School District and serves a relatively high-need student population: 80.37% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–25. The student-teacher ratio was 13.4:1, and per-student spending was $24,395 in 2023–24.

The school’s overall ranking has improved significantly, rising from the 6th percentile in 2020–21 to the 52nd percentile in 2024–25, before edging down to the 45th percentile in 2025–26. Academic results are mixed. English language arts is the school’s strongest broad subject, with 31.09% of students proficient in 2025–26 compared with 27.85% in the district, although both trailed the Washington rate of 52.81%. Science proficiency was 32.69%, slightly above the district’s 30.38%, while math was weaker at 12.61%, below the district’s 15.61% and the state’s 43.11%. Notable grade-level strengths included 10th-grade ELA at 60% and 11th-grade science at 50%; the 8th-grade math result was suppressed by the state and is unknown.

Graduation remains an important concern: the 2024–25 rate was 70.9%, compared with 82.6% statewide, while the dropout rate was 12.9%, above the state’s 9.8%. Results can shift substantially because the school is small, and recent test scores, subgroup rankings, and graduation rates have been volatile. Students from low socioeconomic backgrounds ranked at the 54th percentile in 2025–26, following an especially strong 81st-percentile result the prior year. There are no other schools within 20 miles for direct comparison, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and state. Overall, the school shows encouraging pockets of success but needs more consistent performance, especially in mathematics, earlier grades, and graduation completion.