Best Public Schools in Zip Code 98587

ZIP code 98587 has two small schools serving grades K–12: Taholah Elementary & Middle School serves kindergarten through eighth grade, while Taholah High School serves grades 9–12; both are operated by the small Taholah School District in an area with high economic need and relatively low student-teacher ratios.

There are 192 students across the two schools—126 at the K–8 school and 66 at the high school. Taholah High School is the stronger local performer based on the available 2025–2026 results: 25% of students were proficient in English language arts and 25% in science. Those results are still well below Washington averages of 52.81% and 50.95%, respectively. At Taholah Elementary & Middle School, 10.98% were proficient in English language arts and 7.06% in math, compared with statewide rates of 52.81% and 43.11%. The high school’s math result and several grade-level results were suppressed, so they should be treated as unknown rather than zero.

Both schools report small classes, with about 10 to 11 students per teacher, but academic results remain substantially below state levels. More than three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating significant economic need in the community. The district ranks 236th out of 238 Washington districts in the supplied data. Families should keep the small enrollment in mind: a few students can significantly change percentages, and many results are suppressed because individual grade groups are small. The available high school graduation rate was 70% for 2022–2023, below the more recent state reference rate of 82.6%, while the reported dropout rate was 5.5%; these figures are from different years and are not direct comparisons.