Summary:
ZIP code 98948 has one middle school, Toppenish Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the Toppenish area. The school enrolls about 757 students and is part of the Toppenish School District. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful benchmarks are district and Washington state results. The school reports a 19:1 student-teacher ratio, and 89.7% of students received free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–25, indicating a community with substantial economic need.
In 2025–26, Toppenish Middle School had 26.55% of students proficient in English language arts, 16.27% in math, and 24.89% in science. These results were close to district averages: the school was slightly above the district in ELA and science but slightly below it in math. Compared with Washington averages, however, proficiency was about 26 percentage points lower in each subject. Math is the clearest area for improvement, especially seventh grade, where only 14.41% of students were proficient. ELA was strongest in eighth grade, at 29.69%, while sixth grade had the best math result at 18.18%.
There are some encouraging signs in the recent results. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, science proficiency rose 4.42 percentage points and ELA increased 1.52 points, while math declined slightly by 0.60 points. The school’s reported statewide percentile also improved from the 4th percentile in 2023–24 to the 8th percentile in 2025–26, although it remains in the lower part of the statewide rankings and received zero stars in each listed year. Overall, families can expect a school whose performance broadly reflects the district, with recent progress in science and ELA but significant opportunities to strengthen math and overall achievement.
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