Top Public High Schools in Vancouver, WA by Graduation Rate
Clark County's secondary system is split unevenly across two large districts — Evergreen Public Schools (the larger of the two, despite the Vancouver name often being misapplied) and Vancouver Public Schools — plus the fast-growing exurban districts of Camas, Battle Ground, Ridgefield, Hockinson, and the smaller La Center and Washougal. Ranked by graduation rate, the top of this list shows two clear patterns: small exurban districts outperform the urban core on basic completion, and Evergreen Public Schools (which despite branding sits primarily east and northeast of Vancouver proper) places three schools in the top six.
Hockinson High School, the lone comprehensive of the small Hockinson School District in Brush Prairie, leads at 97.0 percent. Hockinson serves about 690 students and is one of the smallest leaders on any list in this batch; the district's tightly held attendance area and high household-resource profile produce the strongest completion outcome in the metro. Union High School, technically a Vancouver-zip Evergreen Public Schools comprehensive that uses a Camas mailing address, follows at 96.1 percent. Union organizes its 2,000-student campus across five buildings divided into academies — Leadership and Business; Engineering and Environmental Sciences; International Studies and Athletics; and Visual and Performing Arts — and posts the highest SAT mean in the region (1210) alongside a 70 percent AP pass rate.
Ridgefield High School, where the host community has roughly tripled in enrollment over fifteen years amid I-5-corridor exurban growth, comes in third. Skyview, the largest of the Vancouver Public Schools comprehensives, follows. Mountain View and Heritage round out Evergreen Public Schools' three top-six entries; both serve large, demographically mixed Vancouver-area populations. Legacy High School, a smaller Evergreen alternative program, and Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, the Vancouver Public Schools magnet program, both clear ninety percent. Discovery High School in Camas — a project-based STEM-focused choice campus drawing from the Camas district — and Battle Ground High School complete the top ten.
A pattern worth flagging: the Camas School District itself is poorly represented at the top despite its strong overall reputation, because Camas High School posts a graduation rate slightly below this top ten's threshold, and Discovery serves a much smaller cohort. Camas remains one of the strongest districts on academic indicators, simply not on this particular metric.
Camas High School leads Clark County's completion rankings, mirroring its position at the top of every other public-school lens. The Evergreen Public Schools high schools cluster between 85 and 92 percent; Battle Ground SD's high schools (Battle Ground, Prairie) post slightly lower rates reflecting the rural / exurban attendance area. Hayes Freedom HS, a small Evergreen alternative program, is included where its reported cohort clears the OSPI floor.
Ranked schools
- 001HOCKINSON HIGH SCHOOLHOCKINSON SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK97%
- 002UNION HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK96%
- 003RIDGEFIELD HIGH SCHOOLRIDGEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK94%
- 004SKYVIEW HIGH SCHOOLVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK93%
- 005MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK92%
- 006HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK91%
- 007LEGACY HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK90%
- 008VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND ACADEMICSVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK90%
- 009DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOLCAMAS SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK90%
- 010BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOLBATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK88%
- 011PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOLBATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK88%
- 012HUDSON'S BAY HIGH SCHOOLVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK87%
- 013EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK87%
- 014COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK86%
- 015HAYES FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOLCAMAS SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK82%
- 016FORT VANCOUVER HIGH SCHOOLVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK75%
- 017WASHINGTON STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR (SCH FOR BLIND) · THURSTON70%
- 018WASHINGTON STATE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAFWASHINGTON CENTER FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING YOUTH · THURSTON70%
- 019CAMAS CONNECT ACADEMYCAMAS SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK70%
- 020BATTLE GROUND VIRTUAL ACADEMYBATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK67%
- 021SUMMIT VIEW HIGH SCHOOLBATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK46%
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