Enrollment
272
High
DISTRICT 200 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OCOSTA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530609000914
Ocosta Junior - Senior High
2580 S Montesano St, Westport, WA 98595 · (360) 268-9125 · Grays Harbor County
GRADES 07–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Washington public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
178 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 55 | 20% |
| Grade 9 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 11 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 44 | 16% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Ocosta School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
50.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +6.5pp since 2014
Math
24.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.8% | 24.6% |
| 2023-24 | 44.9% | 25.2% |
| 2022-23 | 43.1% | 23.9% |
| 2021-22 | 44.5% | 25.4% |
| 2018-19 | 47.0% | 29.1% |
| 2017-18 | 50.4% | 28.7% |
| 2016-17 | 45.1% | 21.5% |
| 2015-16 | 46.1% | 31.9% |
| 2014-15 | 44.2% | 32.5% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ocosta Junior - Senior High
Ocosta Junior - Senior High's state test result (35.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocosta Junior - Senior High this school | 272 | 65.4% | 35.9% |
| Raymond Jr Sr High School RAYMOND | 240 | 67.1% | 25.5% |
| Mossyrock Jr./Sr. High School MOSSYROCK | 281 | 61.9% | 35.7% |
| Hoquiam High School Hoquiam | 410 | 67.6% | 30.0% |
| Oroville Middle-High School Oroville | 243 | 70.0% | 40.1% |
| Winlock Senior High WINLOCK | 226 | 60.2% | 35.5% |
Matched among Washington high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ocosta Junior - Senior High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Grays Harbor County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #191 of 271 | #4 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #200 of 321 ▼ 25 | #2 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #219 of 327 ▲ 44 | #4 of 8 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #74 of 259 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #279 of 570 | #5 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #37 of 311 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #154 of 316 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.4% | #83 of 386 | #3 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #109 of 164 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
272
-12 (-4%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 357
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 18.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 272 | 16.6 | 16.4:1 | 65% (178) |
| 2023-24 | 257 | 17.3 | 14.8:1 | 70% (181) |
| 2022-23 | 243 | 16.3 | 14.9:1 | 62% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 284 | 15 | 18.9:1 | 78% (222) |
| 2017-18 | 288 | 17 | 16.9:1 | 73% (210) |
| 2015-16 | 299 | 17 | 17.6:1 | 67% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 306 | 18 | 17.0:1 | 61% (187) |
| 2000-01 | 345 | 21 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 357 | 18 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ocosta Junior - Senior High.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (288 to 272); teachers down 3% (17 to 16.6).
About Ocosta Junior - Senior High
Ocosta Junior - Senior High runs as a small high school in Westport, Washington. The school has 272 students in 2024-25 across grades 7 through 12. That compares with an average of about 573 students for high schools in Washington.
Ocosta School District has 3 schools and 600 students, and Ocosta Junior - Senior High is one of those schools.
About 59% of the student body at Ocosta Junior - Senior High is White. Smaller groups are 29% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Native American. County-wide, 79% of Grays Harbor County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
With 16.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.4:1. The average for high schools in Washington is 21.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Ocosta Junior - Senior High, 65% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 65% average for public schools in Grays Harbor County.
Among Washington public high schools, Ocosta Junior - Senior High outscored 48%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Ocosta Junior - Senior High is within a point of the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 35.9% actual, 36.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Washington.
In the wider Grays Harbor County area, the median household earns about $64,414 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 18% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Ocosta Junior - Senior High shares Grays Harbor County with 45 other public schools.
Ocosta ALE is the nearest public school to Ocosta Junior - Senior High, less than a tenth of a mile away. Ocosta Junior - Senior High is one of several public schools in the area, with 2 others within five miles. Ocosta Junior - Senior High comes in 3rd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Ocosta Junior - Senior High is Rural: Distant.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 284 (2020-21) to 272 (2024-25). The number of students per teacher dropped from 18.9 to 16.4 over 4 years.
Ocosta Junior - Senior High has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Grays Harbor County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
77,053
Census ACS
Median income
$64,414
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
10,564 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ocosta School District
- Ocosta Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- Ocosta ALECombined · 7 students
Other schools in Westport
- Ocosta Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- Ocosta ALECombined · 7 students
Nearby schools
- Ocosta ALE0.0 mi · 7
- Ocosta Elementary School0.0 mi · 321
- Ocean Shores Elementary8.3 mi · 254
- North Beach Senior High School11.1 mi · 198
- North Beach Junior High School11.1 mi · 95
- Hoquiam High School12.2 mi · 410
Frequently asked questions
About Ocosta Junior - Senior HighWhat is the total enrollment at Ocosta Junior - Senior High?
Ocosta Junior - Senior High enrolls approximately 272 students in grades 07-12.
What grades does Ocosta Junior - Senior High serve?
Ocosta Junior - Senior High serves grades 07-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ocosta Junior - Senior High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ocosta Junior - Senior High is approximately 16.4:1 (17 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ocosta Junior - Senior High?
At Ocosta Junior - Senior High, the student body is approximately 59% White, 29% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Ocosta Junior - Senior High?
Ocosta Junior - Senior High is overseen by Ocosta School District in Grays Harbor County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.