Washington's 15 Best High Schools (US News) (Seattle, Bellevue: find a job, top schools, income)

[CrazyDonkey]

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seat...photo-10097737

1. Bellevue International School

2. International Community School (Kirkland)

3. Harrison Preparatory School (Lakewood)

4. Aviation High School (Tukwila)

5. Interlake High School (Bellevue)

6. Bellevue High School

7. Roosevelt High School (Seattle)

8. Bainbridge High School

9. Mercer Island High School

10. Garfield High School (Seattle)

11. Bridgeport High School

12. Sammamish Senior High

13. Orcas Island High School

14. Pullman High School

15. Ballard High School (Seattle)

[ElektroDragon]

Wonderful. Most of us will never afford to live in those school zones though. Best bang for the buck are the 9/10 schools in Kitsap where you could still ferry ride to Seattle jobs.

[ScottStielow]

A lot of posters in the past have asked about Seattle or Washington Schools. This will help some make moving decisions. If you can afford some of the schools and the towns they move to in relations to work?
Thanks for the post.

[CrazyDonkey]

Some of this is self-fulfilling prophecy - the better performing schools attract more richer and higher performing students who further separate those schools from lower performing schools, while poorer and lower performing students increasingly can't afford to live in better performing schools' enrollment areas, due to escalating housing costs, further exacerbating the situation.

[texasdiver]

Originally Posted by CrazyDonkey

Some of this is self-fulfilling prophecy - the better performing schools attract more richer and higher performing students who further separate those schools from lower performing schools, while poorer and lower performing students increasingly can't afford to live in better performing schools' enrollment areas, due to escalating housing costs, further exacerbating the situation.

Exactly.

You can pretty much create this list for WA or any other state just by rank ordering the zip codes by family income levels. Not surprising that most of the schools are from affluent Seattle area suburbs. That's where most of the wealthy families with kids live.

[MtnSurfer]

Originally Posted by texasdiver

Exactly.

You can pretty much create this list for WA or any other state just by rank ordering the zip codes by family income levels. Not surprising that most of the schools are from affluent Seattle area suburbs. That's where most of the wealthy families with kids live.

Yes, this is very similar to CA as well. However, the big caveat is that students can still go to a much lower ranked high school and do very well. Likewise, there are students who attend these top schools and simply skate by learning very little. Sometimes there is even a disadvantage to going to one of these schools. For example, the Bay Area over achieving high school graduates will sometimes lose out acceptance to some of our top UCs to lower ranked high school students where the demographic is less represented. This includes more first generation students as the primary demographic. When a high achieving student goes to one of these schools and follows the honors/AP track they can 'really' stand out. This assumes that school has a decent track for these select few. A coworker's son (not a first generation or minority) just did this and was top of his class. He 'just' got accepted to UCLA CS where he was competing with thousands including '200' other 4.0 students. This was his top choice and he worked very hard to get there. Only a smaller percentage got in - under 5%. His older brother did the same thing getting into a very competitive engineering program.

That said, his sons are more of the edge cases and would probably perform toward the top of any high school. I think the bigger challenge is for more of the 'middle of the road' students attending lower performing schools. They sort of follow the pack and the outcome isn't always favorable for these average students. That is where the parents need to step in and take a much more active role to ensure they are getting the classes needed even if outside the school - after schooling in some cases.

Beyond these extremes there are plenty of decent schools outside the 'top 10.' As long as the students apply themselves they can still do very well. Then they can augment their education further with programs such as Running Start.

Derek

[509]

Originally Posted by ElektroDragon

Wonderful. Most of us will never afford to live in those school zones though. Best bang for the buck are the 9/10 schools in Kitsap where you could still ferry ride to Seattle jobs.

Everybody can afford to live in Bridgeport.

https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...h-school-20759

There are 13 teachers and several school administrators that deserve some attention from the taxpayers. Now those teachers definitely deserve a pay raise.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by 509

Everybody can afford to live in Bridgeport....

While I congratulate their 96% grad rate (w/ 89% economically disadvantaged), small populations can really tweak stats as you compare nearby Brewster, WA

Interesting data, tho need for further study. (Reading proficiency sure is all over the map in the districts some 5%; some (few) 100%

[509]

229 students. Teachers are doing something right in Bridgeport. That is a large enough sample.

[CrazyDonkey]

Originally Posted by 509

Everybody can afford to live in Bridgeport.

If you can find a job there (at Chief Joseph Dam?). Lots of "Tree Fruit Worker" jobs, but those are likely seasonal.