Harbor Junior/Senior High School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Washington average is about 58 of 100. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2016.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Harbor Junior/Senior High School
Harbor Junior/Senior High School is a 9-12 campus of very small scale in Aberdeen, Washington, part of Aberdeen School District, works with 128 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 78% smaller than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.
Harbor Junior/Senior High School is one of 13 schools operated by Aberdeen School District, a district that works with 3,183 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Harbor Junior/Senior High School shows that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Native American, 4% Black. By comparison, Grays Harbor County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Harbor Junior/Senior High School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Grays Harbor County's rate of about 65%.
After controlling for student poverty, Harbor Junior/Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.2%; this one delivers 23.6%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Grays Harbor County put the typical household earns roughly $64,414 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Grays Harbor County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,564 students), of which Harbor Junior/Senior High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Harbor Open Doors, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Harbor Junior/Senior High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harbor Junior/Senior High School has grew 22%, going from 105 students in 2018 to 128 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 31% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.
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