Othello High School serves about 1,345 students in Adams County's Columbia Basin, the largest high school in an agricultural region whose economy runs on irrigated potatoes, processing plants, and the rail corridor. It competes in WIAA's 3A classification, and more than four in five of its students are low-income.
The school's strongest numbers are about finishing: 90 percent of students graduate in four years and 94 percent within five, well above what its test profile would predict — SBA proficiency sits at 35 percent in English and under 10 percent in math, among the lower marks in the state. About half of seniors earn college credit before graduating, and the College Board results that exist are solid in quality if small in volume, with about two-thirds of AP exams passing.
After graduation, 23 percent of graduates enroll at a four-year college and 16 percent at a two-year or technical program. Graduates who go straight to work do comparatively well: a median of $34,000 five years out, several thousand dollars above the statewide median for diploma-only graduates, in line with the Basin's steady agricultural-industrial labor market.
Shares are of graduates who enrolled at any college within a year of graduation. Source: WA ERDC Graduate Outcomes.
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