Top Public High Schools in Spokane by Graduation Rate
Spokane County is the secondary education center of eastern Washington, anchored by Spokane Public Schools (the state's second-largest district by enrollment), the rapidly growing Central Valley district covering Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake, and a constellation of mid-sized districts including Mead, West Valley, and East Valley. Ranked by graduation rate, the top of the table runs surprisingly tight — every top-ten school finishes between 91.5 and 96.4 percent — and the leaders are weighted toward the suburban valley districts rather than the urban Spokane core.
West Valley High School in the Millwood neighborhood — operated by West Valley School District 363, not to be confused with the Yakima district of the same name — leads at 96.4 percent, with a 1153 SAT mean and an 85.7 percent AP pass rate that is the strongest of any traditional comprehensive on this list. Ridgeline High School in Liberty Lake follows at 95.9 percent. Ridgeline opened in fall 2021 as the first new comprehensive high school built in Spokane County in more than two decades, on a sixty-acre site, after Central Valley voters approved the bond measure with seventy-percent support; it was designed for a 1,600-student capacity and now enrolls roughly that many. Its ninety-five-plus percent graduation rate in only its first complete senior cohort cycle is a notable early indicator.
Spokane Public Schools contributes On Track Academy, the district's alternative school, at 94.2 percent, plus North Central, Lewis & Clark, The Community School (a small project-based program), and Ferris in the lower half of the top ten. North Central's 938 SAT mean and 73 percent AP pass rate signal an academic profile distinct from the Mead and Central Valley suburban schools above it. University High School (Central Valley) and Central Valley High School itself give the Central Valley district three top-ten entries, the most of any single district on this list. Mt Spokane in the Mead School District completes the leaderboard.
A pattern worth flagging: among top-ten Spokane-area schools, the strongest grad-rate performers are not necessarily the largest. West Valley, The Community School, and On Track Academy each enroll under 850 students and finish ahead of larger comprehensives — a different distribution than in the Eastside or Snohomish lists, where the largest comprehensives dominate.
Mead SD's two high schools (Mead, Mt. Spokane) lead the Spokane-area completion rankings, reflecting the district's high-income north-county attendance area. Central Valley SD's University HS and Spokane Valley's Central Valley HS round out the eastern Spokane County cohort. Spokane Public Schools' six comprehensive 9-12s (Lewis & Clark, Ferris, Rogers, Shadle Park, North Central, On Track Academy) sit further down on this lens than on SAT, reflecting the city's wider socioeconomic spread.
Ranked schools
- 001WEST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLWEST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPOKANE) · SPOKANE96%
- 002RIDGELINE HIGH SCHOOLCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE96%
- 003ON TRACK ACADEMYSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE94%
- 004NORTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE94%
- 005UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE94%
- 006LEWIS & CLARK HIGH SCHOOLSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE93%
- 007CENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE92%
- 008MT SPOKANE HIGH SCHOOLMEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE92%
- 009THE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE92%
- 010FERRIS HIGH SCHOOLSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE91%
- 011ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE91%
- 012MEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLMEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE90%
- 013INNOVATION HIGH SCHOOLINNOVATION SPOKANE SCHOOLS · SPOKANE90%
- 014EAST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLEAST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPOKANE) · SPOKANE89%
- 015SHADLE PARK HIGH SCHOOLSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE89%
- 016MICA PEAK HIGH SCHOOLCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE87%
- 017SPOKANE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLWEST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPOKANE) · SPOKANE86%
- 018DISHMAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLWEST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPOKANE) · SPOKANE82%
- 019SPOKANE VIRTUAL ACADEMYSPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE79%
- 020MEAD LEARNING OPTIONSMEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE77%
- 021LUMEN HIGH SCHOOLLUMEN PUBLIC SCHOOL · SPOKANE58%
- 022CVSD OPEN DOORS PROGRAMSCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT · SPOKANE39%
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