Summary:
ZIP code 98682 has three high-school programs serving grades 9–12 in the Evergreen School District (Clark): the large comprehensive Heritage High School, the alternative Open Doors Evergreen, and the small technical program Cascadia Technical Academy Skills Center. Together they enroll about 1,740 students, with Heritage serving roughly 90% of them, so its results provide the clearest picture of traditional high-school education in the area.
Heritage High School offers the strongest set of available outcome data. Its 90.7% graduation rate is well above Washington’s 82.6%, and its 7.3% dropout rate is below the state’s 9.8%. Academic results are mixed: 47.31% of students met standards in English language arts, above the district but below the state, while only 20.16% met math standards and 32.95% met science standards. Math is the clearest area of concern, with performance substantially below both district and state results. ELA improved by 6.73 percentage points year over year, and math improved modestly, but science declined by 6.43 points. Heritage’s statewide ranking improved in the latest year, although it remained in the lower portion of the ranking distribution.
Open Doors Evergreen serves 157 students in an alternative or re-engagement setting, while Cascadia Technical Academy Skills Center serves just 14 students through a specialized technical program. Neither school has graduation, dropout, or test-score results in the available data, so their academic performance cannot be fairly compared with Heritage. Open Doors has the highest reported free- or reduced-price lunch participation and an unusually high reported student-teacher ratio, while Cascadia has the highest spending per student and an unusually low ratio. These figures likely reflect their specialized structures rather than typical classroom conditions. Parents comparing programs should focus on each school’s mission and available course options, while viewing Heritage as the main conventional high-school option in the ZIP code.
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