Best High Schools in Zip Code 98424

ZIP code 98424 has two high schools serving grades 10–12—Fife High School and Fife Open Doors—both part of the Fife School District.

Fife High School is the area’s main comprehensive high school, with 885 of the 910 students enrolled across both schools. Its clearest strength is English language arts: 66.4% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, well above both the district and state rates. Math is the biggest academic concern, with 30.43% proficiency, below the district and state. Science proficiency was 43.13%, close to the district but below the state. Graduation outcomes were comparatively steady: the 2024–2025 graduation rate was 85.3%, slightly above the district and state, while the dropout rate was 9.7%, slightly below both. The school’s latest ranking placed it at the 57th percentile, an improvement from the prior year, although below its 64th-percentile result two years earlier.

Fife Open Doors is a much smaller program, enrolling 25 students, and likely offers a different educational setting from Fife High School. Its reported free- or reduced-price lunch participation was 76%, compared with 49.94% at the larger school. The available data for Fife Open Doors are limited, with no recent school-level test, graduation, dropout, or student-teacher-ratio results reported. Its 2023–2024 graduation and dropout figures were both listed as 26.3%, but the small enrollment makes percentages unstable and calls for caution. Families comparing these schools should consider program structure, student needs, and the amount of available data rather than relying on raw percentages alone.