Top Public High Schools in Vancouver, WA by SAT Mean
Clark County's public high school SAT leaderboard runs tighter than any other metro in this batch — the gap between first and tenth is just 190 points, and the top six cluster within fifty. Two patterns stand out: Evergreen Public Schools (the larger Vancouver-area district despite the naming convention) places three schools in the top seven, and the smallest comprehensive in the metro, Hockinson High in Brush Prairie, ties for second.
Union High School in Camas — technically operated by Evergreen Public Schools and using a Camas mailing address — leads at 1210 and pairs that with a 96 percent graduation rate. Union's five-building academy structure (Leadership and Business; Engineering and Environmental Sciences; International Studies and Athletics; Visual and Performing Arts; the central Student Union) gives it the most explicitly academy-organized comprehensive footprint in the region. Hockinson High School (1179), the lone secondary of the small Hockinson School District in Brush Prairie, ties Mountain View High of Evergreen Public Schools at 1179. Mountain View serves a substantially larger and more demographically mixed Vancouver-area population.
Ridgefield High School (1163) reflects Ridgefield's exurban growth along the I-5 corridor north of Vancouver. Battle Ground High School (1116) and Prairie High School in the same Battle Ground district (1116) tie. Heritage High School (1090) is the third Evergreen Public Schools comprehensive on the list. Columbia River High in Vancouver Public Schools (1087) follows. Vancouver iTech Preparatory, a Vancouver Public Schools choice STEM program serving about 600 students, posts a 1067 mean despite a much smaller cohort. Skyview, the largest Vancouver Public Schools comprehensive, finishes the top ten at 1020.
A structural observation: the urban Vancouver Public Schools comprehensives — Hudson's Bay, Fort Vancouver, Skyview — collectively post SAT means below 1100, while the surrounding exurban districts (Camas, Hockinson, Ridgefield, Battle Ground) all clear that mark. The pattern mirrors the Tacoma Public Schools versus surrounding Pierce County districts split observed elsewhere in this batch.
Camas High School leads Clark County by a wide margin, reflecting the small lakeside city's role as the metro's highest-performing-public anchor at every grade band. The Evergreen Public Schools high schools (Mountain View, Evergreen, Heritage, Union) all cluster in a tight 60-point band below Camas, and the Battle Ground SD high schools (Battle Ground, Prairie) sit at the bottom of the in-metro distribution.
Ranked schools
- 001UNION HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK1210
- 002HOCKINSON HIGH SCHOOLHOCKINSON SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK1179
- 003MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK1179
- 004RIDGEFIELD HIGH SCHOOLRIDGEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK1163
- 005BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOLBATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK1116
- 006PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOLBATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK1116
- 007HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK1090
- 008COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK1087
- 009VANCOUVER ITECH PREPARATORYVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK1067
- 010EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOLEVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT (CLARK) · CLARK1033
- 011SKYVIEW HIGH SCHOOLVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK1020
- 012FORT VANCOUVER HIGH SCHOOLVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK930
- 013HUDSON'S BAY HIGH SCHOOLVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT · CLARK850
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