Summary:
Zip code 98846 is served by two small schools in the Pateros School District: Pateros Elementary for grades K–6 and Pateros High School for grades 7–12, with 231 students combined. Both schools serve a rural community and have relatively small classes, with 14.9 students per teacher in elementary school and 11.9 in high school.
Pateros Elementary shows a relative strength in math compared with the district. In 2025–2026, 35.48% of students were proficient in math, about 9 percentage points above the district, although below the state rate. Elementary ELA proficiency was 42.86%, below both the district and state. Fourth grade was the strongest reported cohort, with 53.57% proficiency in ELA and 50% in math, while third-grade math was much weaker at 28.57%. The school’s ranking improved to the 62nd percentile in the latest data, despite a year-over-year decline in overall math performance. Small grade-level groups mean that results can change noticeably from year to year.
Pateros High School performs better than the district in ELA and science. Its ELA proficiency was 53.03%, slightly above the state, and science proficiency was 35.71%, above the district but below the state. Math is the clearest concern: only 17.19% of students were proficient, compared with 26.19% districtwide and 43.11% statewide. Eighth-grade ELA and science were also particularly low, and tenth-grade math proficiency was 14.29%. The high school reported an 86.3% graduation rate and 4.5% dropout rate for 2021–2022. Both schools have high reported economic-need rates and relatively high per-student spending, but the most important academic priorities are strengthening high school math, supporting eighth-grade students, and reversing the elementary math decline.
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