Public Schools in Washington
2,465 schools · 323 districts · 1,090,227 students
Largest Schools in Washington
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Chiawana Senior High School
Pasco
Tahoma Senior High School
Maple Valley
Issaquah High School
Issaquah
South Kitsap High School
Port Orchard
Pasco Senior High School
Pasco
Eastlake High School
Sammamish
Davis High School
Yakima
Kamiak High School
Mukilteo
Eisenhower High School
Yakima
Redmond High School
Redmond
Frequently Asked Questions
Washington has 2,465 public schools across 323 districts, serving 1,090,227 students.
The largest school in Washington is Chiawana Senior High School with 2,999 students. Washington has 2,465 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 49%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.