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J M Weatherwax 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 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 33 points since 2014.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 J M Weatherwax High School
Located at 410 North G Street, in Aberdeen, Washington, J M Weatherwax High School is a well-populated 9-12 campus that hosts 919 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Aberdeen School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so J M Weatherwax High School sits 60% larger than that benchmark.
Within Aberdeen School District, which oversees 13 schools and 3,183 students, J M Weatherwax High School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, J M Weatherwax High School shows that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 37% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. 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, J M Weatherwax High School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at J M Weatherwax High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, J M Weatherwax High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -6.4 points.
In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Grays Harbor County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,564 students), of which J M Weatherwax High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Twin Harbors A Branch of New Market Skills Center, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J M Weatherwax High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts J M Weatherwax High School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 29.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. J M Weatherwax High School's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 945 (now 919). Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.
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