Summary:
ZIP code 98857 has one high school, Warden High School, serving grades 9–12 in the Warden area. The school enrolls about 290 students and is part of the Warden School District. With a student–teacher ratio of 18.5 to 1, it offers a relatively small-school setting. About 77% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that many families may benefit from strong academic, attendance, and student-support services.
Warden High School has several local strengths. In 2025–26, 47.06% of students met standards in English language arts and 40.68% met standards in science, both higher than the corresponding Warden School District rates. The school’s ranking also improved from 330th of 438 schools in 2024–25 to 274th of 396 schools in 2025–26, and its rating increased from one star to two. These results suggest recent progress, although the school remained below the statewide midpoint and below Washington’s proficiency rates in all three tested subjects.
The most important concern for families is mathematics: only 23.19% of students met standards in 2025–26, about 20 percentage points below the state rate and below the district result. Graduation was 78.7%, compared with 82.6% statewide, while the 15.0% dropout rate was considerably higher than the state’s 9.8%. ELA and science results were mostly stable from the prior year, so the clearest priorities are sustained math improvement, reducing dropout rates, and helping more students graduate on time. Reported per-student spending was $20,771 in 2023–24, which may support further investment in tutoring, credit recovery, counseling, attendance programs, and family services.
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