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Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 98951


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745
Students
Top rankedWapato Middle School497th of 514 Washington middle schools
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Wapato Middle School up 28 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

ZIP code 98951 has two middle-school programs serving grades 6–8: Wapato Middle School and the much smaller Wapato Online Academy 6-8, both part of the Wapato School District; together, they serve 745 students, with the traditional school serving nearly all of them.

Wapato Middle School enrolls 737 students and is the primary middle-school option in the area. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 24.51% in English Language Arts, 12.29% in math, and 18.48% in science. These results were below Washington averages, which were 52.81%, 43.11%, and 50.95%, respectively. The school’s results were close to district averages, indicating that its performance generally reflects the broader Wapato School District rather than standing far apart from it. Math was the clearest concern, especially in seventh grade, where 9.17% of students were proficient. English Language Arts was the strongest subject and showed the largest year-over-year improvement, rising 5.22 percentage points from the prior year. Science also improved and was nearly identical to the district result.

There are some positive signs: Wapato Middle School improved in all three tested subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and its statewide ranking percentile increased from the 1st to the 3rd percentile, although it remains near the bottom of the statewide distribution. The school reports a high level of economic need, with 88.6% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, which is useful context when reviewing results. The online academy enrolls only eight students, and its school-level test scores are suppressed for privacy; the unavailable figures should not be treated as zero or as evidence of poor performance. Because of its size and missing results, it cannot be fairly compared academically with the traditional school. Overall, families are primarily choosing between a large in-person middle school with recent improvement but substantial achievement gaps and a very small online program with limited public performance data.

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