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Best High Schools in Zip Code 98321


At a glance
2
Schools
1,380
Students
Top rankedWhite River High School138th of 396 Washington high schools
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Biggest riser
White River High School up 21 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Zip code 98321 covers Buckley, Washington, and is served by the White River School District, with two high schools serving grades 9–12: White River High School and White River Reengagement Program.

White River High School is by far the larger school, enrolling 1,340 of the zip's 1,380 high school students, or about 97.1%. It has strong English Language Arts results (76.28% proficiency in 2025–2026, above the state's 64.41% for 10th grade), a 96.9% graduation rate versus the state's 82.6%, and a low 1.5% dropout rate versus 9.8% statewide. Math and science lag by comparison: 10th-grade math was 34.42%, just under the state's 35.42%, and 11th-grade science was 42.06%, below the state's 48.78% and down from 48.66% the prior year. Its rank history is stable at 3 stars and roughly the 65th percentile. The White River School District overall ranks 33rd of 238 in Washington (86th percentile, 4 stars), stronger than the high school's standalone ranking.

White River Reengagement Program is very small, with 40 students (about 2.9% of the zip's high school enrollment), and has a much higher free/reduced-lunch rate (65% versus 31.27%) and a lower reported per-student spending figure ($4,351 versus $15,520). It has no test, graduation, dropout, or rank data, and its student-teacher ratio is unknown, so its outcomes cannot be compared with the comprehensive high school from this dataset.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Washington State Department of Health and the Washington Office of Superindentent of Public Instruction.

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