Best High Schools in Zip Code 98563

High Schools in zip code 98563 consist of a single school — Montesano Junior-Senior High, a combined junior-senior high serving grades 7–12 with 698 students in the Montesano area of Grays Harbor County, Washington, as part of the Montesano School District. Because it is the only school in the zip code, the most useful benchmarks are the state and the district. The school ranks 92 of 396 high schools statewide (77th percentile) with a 4-star rating, and its completion outcomes are its strongest feature: a 94.0% graduation rate and 3.4% dropout rate, compared with 82.6% and 9.8% statewide. In plain terms, roughly 1 in 29 students drops out here versus about 1 in 10 across Washington.

Academically, the school performs well in reading and science. ELA proficiency is 67.54%, about 14.7 points above the state, with 10th grade reaching 75.00% — roughly 10.6 points above the state. Science is 56.62%, about 5.7 points above the state and higher in both 8th and 11th grade. Math is the exception: at 41.23% overall, it sits essentially at state level but trails the district's 50.88% by nearly 10 points, and the school's reading-to-math gap of about 26 points is far wider than the state's. The good news is that all three subjects improved year over year, with math posting the largest jump — an 8.2-point gain that cut its gap to the state from about 9.6 points to 1.88 points in one cycle.

Worth noting is that the district ranks higher than the school (88th versus 77th percentile). Since the high school is the only school holding grades 7–12, the district's higher math average must come from the elementary grades, meaning the district's math edge is largely built before students arrive at this building. The school achieves its results with 38.11% of students on free/reduced lunch and a 20.4:1 student-teacher ratio, with $15,621 in spending per student (2023-24). The trend line is clearly positive: statewide rank moved 128 to 121 to 92 and percentile rose 71 to 72 to 77, so the most important signal here is direction.