Summary:
ZIP code 98335 in Gig Harbor, Washington, is home to exactly one public high school — Gig Harbor High — which serves grades 9–12 with about 1,375 students (roughly 340 per grade) and belongs to Peninsula School District, itself a highly rated district (92nd percentile, 5 stars). Gig Harbor High ranks 52nd of 396 Washington high schools in 2025-2026 — the 87th percentile, 4 stars, or roughly the top 13% statewide.
Outcomes are strong. The graduation rate is 90.9%, above the district’s 88.7% and the state’s 82.6%, while the dropout rate of 5.8% is below both the district (7.4%) and state (9.8%). In 2025-2026, ELA proficiency was 77.36%, beating the state (52.81%) by 24.55 points; math was 47.68% versus the state’s 43.11%; science was 60.44% versus 50.95%. ELA is the standout — 29.68 points above the school’s own math result, the widest internal gap in the data. All three subjects declined from 2024-2025 (ELA −6.23 points, math −3.42, science −3.56), though SBAC is taken in grade 10 and WCAS in grade 11, so those comparisons reflect different student cohorts rather than one class’s trajectory.
One comparison caveat matters for parents: in the “All Grades” view the school appears behind its district in math (47.68% vs 57.08%) and science (60.44% vs 66.05%), but at the grades actually tested it leads the district — 10th-grade math 47.68% vs 44.23% and 11th-grade science 60.44% vs 58.44%. That points to differing aggregation rules, so grade-level figures are the safer guide. Context: a 26:1 student-teacher ratio (about 53 teachers), 14.98% free/reduced lunch, and $14,870 per-student spending — three metrics drawn from three different school years.
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