Top Schools in Seattle + Eastside by Harvard / Princeton / MIT Placements
PolarisList's Harvard / Princeton / MIT acceptance counts for the 2022-2025 cohorts are sparse enough that they describe the very top of the field rather than a full ranking. Lakeside School (Seattle, private, ~875 students) leads by a wide margin with 31 HPM acceptances — the highest in the state. The next tier of metro schools share the rest of the published-placement field.
Interlake Senior High School in Bellevue is the top public school nationally in the metro on this lens with 13 HPM acceptances 2022-2025, reflecting its role as Bellevue SD's district-wide Gifted High School Program hub. Redmond High and Bellevue High both post 6 HPM acceptances; Holy Names Academy (Seattle, private) also sits at 6. Nikola Tesla STEM, Mercer Island, and Roosevelt each report 5 HPM acceptances. Newport and Northwest's selective Lakeside-adjacent privates fill in the remaining placements on the published list.
HPM acceptances reflect a single narrow signal — three highly selective universities, four admission cycles — but they capture something specific about how a school's graduates concentrate in the most selective end of college outcomes. Most metro schools on this lens also sit high on the broader composite-of-SAT-and-graduation-rate ranking; the lens distinguishes the few schools where HPM placement is a regular outcome rather than an occasional one.
Ranked schools
- 001LAKESIDE SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING31 HPM
- 002INTERLAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING13 HPM
- 003REDMOND HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING6 HPM
- 004BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING6 HPM
- 005HOLY NAMES ACADEMY(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING6 HPM
- 006ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING5 HPM
- 007MERCER ISLAND HIGH SCHOOLMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING5 HPM
- 008NIKOLA TESLA STEM HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING5 HPM
- 009NEWPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING5 HPM
- 010EASTSIDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING4 HPM
- 011SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOLISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING3 HPM
- 012EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING3 HPM
- 013BALLARD HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING2 HPM
- 014INGRAHAM HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING2 HPM
- 015LAKE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING2 HPM
- 016THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING2 HPM
- 017GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING1 HPM
- 018EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOLHIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1 HPM
- 019EASTLAKE HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1 HPM
- 020HAZEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLRENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1 HPM
- 021BOTHELL HIGH SCHOOLNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1 HPM
- 022SHOREWOOD HIGH SCHOOLSHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1 HPM
- 023THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING1 HPM
- 024THE BEAR CREEK SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING1 HPM
- 025SEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL(PRIVATE SCHOOL — INDEPENDENT) · KING1 HPM
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