Best High Schools in Zip Code 98937

ZIP code 98937 has one high school: Naches Valley High School, serving grades 9–12 in the Naches Valley School District. The school enrolls 399 students, has a 17.6-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and reports $18,918 in per-student spending. About 46.87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, providing useful context about the community served. Since there is no other high school in the ZIP code, families are evaluating this school’s overall strengths and challenges rather than choosing among several local high schools.

The school’s clearest strength is graduation: 92.0% of students graduated in 2024–25, matching the district and exceeding Washington’s 82.6% rate. English Language Arts is also a relative strength. In 2025–26, 59.26% of students were proficient, compared with 42.17% districtwide and 52.81% statewide. Science performance was 44.59%, higher than the district’s 37.45% but below the state’s 50.95%. These results suggest that students generally have stronger outcomes in ELA and science than in math, while the high graduation rate indicates that completing high school is a notable success.

Math is the most important concern for families to investigate. Only 26.25% of students were proficient in math in 2025–26, below both the district’s 32.04% and the state’s 43.11%. Math also fell 14.15 percentage points from the previous year. ELA declined by 14.70 points and science by 4.82 points over the same period, contributing to a ranking change from 129th of 438 schools, at the 71st percentile, to 204th of 396, at the 48th percentile. Even after the ELA decline, the school remained above the state average. Parents may want to ask about math support, recent curriculum or staffing changes, and whether the broad one-year declines continue in future results.