Summary:
ZIP code 98372 has one high school, E B Walker High School, serving grades 8–12 in Puyallup within the Puyallup School District. The school enrolls 120 students and offers a small-school setting with an 11.7-to-1 student-teacher ratio. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP code, there are no other local high schools to compare directly.
The school’s strongest features are its small size, relatively low student-teacher ratio, and available resources, including $22,014 in per-student spending. However, families should pay close attention to completion and persistence measures. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 80.0%, below the district’s 87.5% and the state’s 82.6%. A separate 2023–2024 dropout rate was 16.2%; because the district and state figures available are from a different year, this is not a direct comparison, but it still signals the importance of asking about attendance, credit recovery, counseling, and programs that help students stay on track. About 63% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that many families may benefit from strong academic and support services.
School-specific test results are suppressed, so the available data cannot show how E B Walker students perform in English, math, or science. As context, the district performs above Washington in most reported subjects, especially 10th-grade English and 11th-grade science, while 10th-grade math is a relative weakness. The school’s ranking has also been inconsistent: it rose from the 1st percentile in 2021–2022 to the 26th percentile in 2023–2024, but remained below the statewide midpoint. Parents may want to visit the school and ask about graduation support, recent dropout trends, student outcomes, and how the school’s small setting is used to provide individualized attention.
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