Taholah Elementary & Middle School - SchoolDecoder Scorecard

Decoded Rank

All factors combined

1 star

WA statewide rating — the rank below is this school's statewide position

Bottom 15% decoded

Insufficient data for a comparable rank

Washington schools

Achievement Rank

Raw test performance

Bottom 15% achievement

Insufficient data for a comparable rank

Washington schools

places from achievement to Decoded Rank

Typical Profile

Scores are low here, and the school performs below comparable schools once context is considered.

Low data confidence — interpret these rankings carefully. Small samples or low participation reduce how strongly the data supports the result.

Data confidence:Low40 students tested 9 years95% participation

Confidence is computed from sample size, year coverage, and participation rate. Higher confidence means the rank shift is stable across years and not driven by a single small cohort.

Tested students: total students with valid scores across all reported years.
Years of data: number of school years included. More years smooths year-to-year noise.
Participation: share of enrolled students who took the assessment. Low participation can bias scores.

Each component below is scored on a 0–100 within-metro scale. A qualitative band summarizes where the school lands.

LowPerforms above what its context predictsCounts for 39% of the rank
After accounting for income and demographics, does this school beat what the data would predict?
LowStudents gain ground year over yearCounts for 33% of the rank
Are kids at this school learning faster than typical for the metro?
LowEquity within the schoolCounts for 17% of the rank
Are students clustered at similar levels, or split between top and bottom?
StrongMost students were testedCounts for 11% of the rank
Was the rank computed against a representative share of the school's students?

Show the numbersFor the methodology-curious

Each component is converted to a 0–100 within-metro percentile (100 = top of the metro). "Contribution" is the percentile-points the component adds to (or subtracts from) the metro median before the schools are re-ranked into the composite.

Per-component contributions to this school's Decoded Rank composite. Weight is the share each component carries; percentile is the school's within-metro score on that component.
Component	Weight	Percentile	Contribution
Performs above what its context predicts	39%	8	-16.1
Students gain ground year over year	33%	3	-15.8
Equity within the school	17%	18	-5.3
Most students were tested	11%	95	+5.0

How the Decoded Rank composite is computed

Why trust this?

Public data sources
Context-adjusted model
Confidence shown
Methodology published

This score uses state assessment data, NCES enrollment data, and Census ACS 5-year neighborhood data. The Decoded Rank adjusts for school context — student demographics, ELL/SPED service rates, and the socioeconomic profile of the surrounding tract — and shows how the school performs relative to expectation, not in absolute terms.

SchoolDecoder is one signal, not a verdict. Decoded Rank is a context-adjusted residual, not a causal claim about teaching quality. See full methodology →

All Rankings

How this school ranks across the metro, state, and among demographic peers.

Scope	Achievement	Decoded
WA (1506 schools)	#1487	#1498
Aberdeen, WA (23 schools)	#23	#23
Among similar schools (6 peers)	#1	#2

Resource context

School inputs, not ranking points

These fields describe the school and surrounding neighborhood. They help readers interpret the page, but this is not a dollar-by-dollar or ratio-by-ratio scorecard and the fields here are not components of the Decoded Rank.

Enrollment: 126
Free/reduced-price lunch: 82.5%
Student-teacher ratio: 11.5:1
Locale: Rural, remote
School type: Regular public school
Enrollment model: Neighborhood attendance area
Neighborhood median income: $50,833ACS tract proxy
Neighborhood poverty: 28.5%ACS tract proxy
SES index: 4.8
Assessment data year: 2025
CCD year: 2024
ACS vintage: 2020-2024

Within Taholah School District: #1 of 1. View district

Performance Spread

How students are distributed across the four state-assessment proficiency levels — L1: below standard, L2: approaching, L3: meets (proficient), L4: exceeds. This describes the shape of results at the school, not their height.

Tight distribution

Students at this school cluster closely on the proficiency ladder.

L1 71%

L3 21%

Level 1 — Below standard71%
Level 2 — Approaching standard5%
Level 3 — Meets standard (proficient)21%
Level 4 — Exceeds standard3%

Performance Spread measures how evenly students are distributed across the L1..L4 proficiency ladder, treating the levels as an ordered scale (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4) and weighting each by its student share. A school where most students cluster at one level has a TIGHT spread; a school split between the bottom and top has a WIDE or BIMODAL spread. Bimodal fires only when BOTH tails are non-trivial AND the middle is relatively hollow (pct_L1 ≥ 15, pct_L4 ≥ 25, pct_L2 + pct_L3 ≤ 60). It describes shape — NOT how high the school's scores are. Methodology

Nearby Schools

Sorted by distance. Both rank columns shown so you can compare quickly.

School	Rating	Achievement	Decoded	Story	Confidence
Taholah High School	Ranking unavailable
Pacific Beach Elementary School	Rankings coming soon
Lake Quinault School		#12	#5Also HS #1	Typical Profile	Low
North Beach Senior High School		#6	#7HS	HS outcome	HS pool
North Beach Junior High School		#15	#9	Typical Profile	Medium

Similar Schools

Schools with comparable demographics, income, and size. Both rank columns shown for direct comparison.

School	Rating	Achievement	Decoded	Story	Confidence
Loon Lake Elementary School		#72	#67	Typical Profile	Low
Northport Elementary School		#37	#2	Typical Profile	Medium
Springdale Middle School	Rankings coming soon
Three Springs High School	Rank withheld
Summit Valley School		#90	#112	Typical Profile	Low

Historical Ranks

Year-by-year decoded and achievement ranks. Pandemic-affected years are excluded — we don't interpolate scores across the gap.

Year	Achievement	Decoded	Shift
2025	#23	#23

Note: assessment transitions (where a state changes its test) are footnoted on the methodology page; trends are not computed across breakpoints.

Trajectory

Not used in the Decoded Rank — shown for context only.

Not enough years yet

Trajectory will appear once we have two or more years of rankings for this school.

How this works: we fit a linear trend across the available years of Decoded percentile, then bucket the slope into a direction. Wide confidence intervals (uncertain trends) collapse to Holding steady. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Cohort Progression

Kids who started 6th grade here in 2015 gained 7 proficiency points by 8th grade — gaining slower than the metro median.

Based on 2 cohorts across math + ELA.

Learning rate: +0.6 proficiency points/yr (95% CI -5.5 to 6.8)

Medium confidence

Cohort	2015	2016	2017	2018	2025	Slope
ELA · started 6th in 2015	G6 160	G7 164	G8 167			+3.3
ELA · started 6th in 2016		G6 153	G7 150			-2.9
ELA · started 4th in 2015	G4 200					—
ELA · started 3rd in 2015	G3 150					—
ELA · started 3rd in 2025					G3 163	—
Math · started 3rd in 2015	G3 143					—
Math · started 3rd in 2018				G3 150		—
Math · started 3rd in 2025					G3 147	—

How this works: we follow each grade-cohort across years through the school (3rd graders in 2023 are 4th graders in 2024, etc.) and fit a linear slope on a 100–400 proficiency-points scale built from the state assessment's four levels (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4, weighted by student share). This is the same construction Stanford SEDA uses (edopportunity.org/methods); it's not student-level tracking — we measure the school's cohort, not individuals. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Student Growth (Washington)

Student growth percentile: the typical student here grew faster than 34% of Washington students with similar score histories.

Median Student Growth Percentile (SGP), as published by Washington's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 50 is exactly typical for the state. Based on 8 years of data.

Year	Math SGP	ELA SGP	Students (math / ELA)
2015	44	26	64 / 63
2016	20	23	65 / 61
2017	34	38	65 / 62
2018	49	32	67 / 69
2019	48	32	60 / 61
2023	40	34	63 / 62
2024	38	33	58 / 55
2025	31	38	57 / 55

Washington did not administer statewide tests during 2020–2022, so those years are absent — a gap in the data, not a score of zero.

How this works: a Student Growth Percentile compares a student's score change to other Washington students who started at a similar place, so it measures growth independent of where a student began. We show Washington's published medians; Oregon does not publish student growth percentiles, so this panel never appears on Oregon schools. See the methodology page for how growth enters the Decoded Rank.

Evidence & technical detailClick to expand

School Alpha

School Alpha is the residual between actual and expected performance once school context is held constant. It is a context-adjusted estimate, not a causal claim about teaching quality. Its reliability shows up on the page as the confidence label and the rank interval, not as a standalone statistic.

SES index components

SES method: Blended SES index (ACS + FRL)
SES index value: 4.8
FRL %: 82.5%
ELL %: 0.0% · WA OSPI Report Card Enrollment
SPED %: 26.2% · WA OSPI Report Card Enrollment
Tract median income (ACS 5-year): $50,833
Tract poverty rate: 28.5%
Tract % bachelor's+: 8.6%

What "Decoded Rank" means

Decoded Rank converts School Alpha — the context-adjusted residual — into a parent-facing rank within the metro pool. A higher Decoded Rank than Achievement Rank means the school's raw scores understate its performance once neighborhood and school context are held constant. The reverse means raw scores overstate it. The rank is one signal, not a verdict.

Read the full methodology → · Data sources →