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Best Public High Schools in Seattle + Eastside

Seattle and the Eastside contain the densest concentration of high-performing public high schools in Washington. The Eastside has long been the academic core of the metro on test-based outcomes — three school districts (Lake Washington, Bellevue, Issaquah) account for nearly every school in the top ten on a composite of SAT mean and four-year graduation rate. Nikola Tesla STEM in Redmond, Lake Washington School District's lottery-admit selective STEM magnet, leads the metro with a 1402 SAT mean — the highest of any non-magnet public in the state — and a 100 percent AP participation rate.

Bellevue School District's flagships split between two campuses. Newport feeds the south Bellevue and Somerset hill neighborhoods. Interlake hosts the district's highly-capable hub and shows up on the Polaris-driven Harvard / Princeton / MIT placements list rather than this composite (its 13 HPM acceptances 2022-2025 are second only to Lakeside statewide). International School — BSD's 6-12 IB Continuum magnet — sits parallel to Interlake in the district's choice portfolio. Mercer Island, an autonomous one-high-school district on its namesake island, leads the Seattle-side cohort on combined measured outcomes (1323 SAT mean, 96 percent graduation, 77 percent SBA math).

Seattle Public Schools contributes Lincoln (reopened 2019 in Wallingford), Roosevelt, Ballard, and Garfield to the cross-shore ranking. The Issaquah plateau schools — Skyline, Eastlake, and Issaquah High itself — round out the strong Eastside comprehensives. Bainbridge and the urban Seattle schools sit further down on this composite but appear high on other lenses (HPM, SAT-only, or graduation rate).

Ranked schools

001NIKOLA TESLA STEM HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+3.74σ
002SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOLISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.87σ
003MERCER ISLAND HIGH SCHOOLMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.85σ
004EASTLAKE HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.75σ
005ISSAQUAH HIGH SCHOOLISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.54σ
006REDMOND HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.41σ
007NEWPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.37σ
008WOODINVILLE HSNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.25σ
009LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING+2.22σ
010INGLEMOOR HSNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+2.19σ
011BOTHELL HIGH SCHOOLNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+1.91σ
012LAKE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+1.84σ
013SHOREWOOD HIGH SCHOOLSHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+1.64σ
014ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING+1.63σ
015CEDARCREST HIGH SCHOOLRIVERVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+1.60σ
016JUANITA HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+1.54σ
017SHORECREST HIGH SCHOOLSHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+1.42σ
018BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING+0.91σ
019WEST SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING+0.88σ
020BALLARD HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING+0.81σ
021GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING+0.41σ
022INGRAHAM HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING+0.12σ
023BELLEVUE BIG PICTURE SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING-0.17σ
024INTERLAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING-0.41σ
025SAMMAMISH SENIOR HIGHBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING-0.61σ

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