Summary:
ZIP code 98261, a small island community in Washington, has one high school: Lopez Middle High School, serving grades 7–12. The school enrolls 111 students and is part of the Lopez Island School District. Its small size and student-teacher ratio of 13.3 to 1 may support close relationships between students and staff, although results can change noticeably from year to year because a relatively small number of students affects schoolwide percentages.
Lopez Middle High School has a strong overall profile. It ranked 67th out of 438 Washington schools in 2024–2025, placing it in the 85th percentile and earning four stars. Its 88.0% graduation rate was 5.4 percentage points above the statewide rate. The school also performed especially well in 2024–2025 science, with 66.67% of students proficient compared with 49.38% statewide, and in English Language Arts, where 62.79% were proficient compared with 53.10% statewide. Math was close to the state average. The school’s per-student spending was $28,779 in 2023–2024, though the figure may reflect the costs of operating a small, geographically isolated school.
The main area for parents to monitor is English Language Arts. Overall ELA proficiency fell to 51.92% in 2025–2026 from 62.79% the prior year, and results for grades 7 and 8 were below state averages. Math was more encouraging: overall proficiency rose to 44.23%, slightly above the state, with particularly strong results in grades 8 and 10. Several science and 10th-grade ELA results were suppressed to protect privacy, so those figures are unknown rather than zero. The available dropout rate is older than the current graduation data, making updated information important. Overall, the school appears strong academically and in graduation outcomes, with literacy—especially in the middle grades—as the clearest improvement priority.
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