Best High Schools in Zip Code 98056

ZIP code 98056, in Renton, has two small specialized high-school programs serving only grades 11–12, both affiliated with Renton Technical College. Together, they enroll 362 students: YouthSource and RTC has 296 students, while Renton Technical High School has 66. These are not traditional four-year high schools, so families should consider their specialized upper-grade programs and possible alternative or credit-recovery pathways when reviewing the available data.

YouthSource and RTC is the larger program and the only school in the list with reported graduation, dropout, and testing results. For 2024–2025, its reported graduation rate was 1.7%, compared with 82.6% statewide, and its dropout rate was 48.6%, compared with 9.8% statewide. These figures are serious reasons for parents to ask questions about graduation planning, attendance support, credit recovery, student transfers, and how the program defines outcomes. However, the school’s 11th–12th-grade structure and specialized mission may make direct comparisons with conventional grades 9–12 schools less meaningful. Its 2025–2026 science results were suppressed, so they cannot be interpreted as zero or as evidence of poor performance.

Renton Technical High School is much smaller, with 66 students, but the supplied information does not include graduation, dropout, science, free/reduced-price lunch, or student-teacher-ratio data. As a result, parents cannot determine from this dataset whether it performs better or worse than YouthSource and RTC. The most useful next step is to contact each program about its mission, admissions and transfer policies, typical student schedules, graduation supports, cohort sizes, and recent completion outcomes. Missing information should be treated as unavailable, not as proof of either strong or weak performance.