Top Public High Schools in Snohomish County by Graduation Rate
Snohomish County's high school landscape is unusually evenly distributed across multiple mid-sized districts — Everett, Mukilteo, Edmonds, Northshore (which crosses the King-Snohomish line), Snohomish, Lake Stevens, and Marysville. Ranked by four-year graduation rate, the top of the table favors the southern, suburbanized half of the county, with all top ten schools clearing 91.6 percent and the leader, Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek, finishing at 98.2 percent — the highest rate of any traditional comprehensive high school in this batch.
Jackson, opened in 1994 as the third high school in the Everett School District and named for the late Senator Henry M. Jackson, runs a Project Lead The Way curriculum alongside its AP and University of Washington in the High School courses, and enrolls more than 2,100 students. North Creek High School in Bothell, which opened to 9th-11th graders in fall 2017 and graduated its first full senior cohort in 2019, follows at 97.2 percent and posts the strongest combination here of SAT (1273) and AP performance. North Creek operates on a STEM-leaning model with more than twenty AP offerings, an Aviation: Introduction to Flight elective, and ten University of Washington in the High School courses.
The Snohomish School District places two schools in the top five — Glacier Peak and Snohomish High — separated by a half percentage point in graduation rate but a sixty-point gap in SAT mean, an interesting wrinkle. Cascade in Everett and Everett High School itself anchor the Everett School District's contribution to the list, with Cascade's 96.6 percent rate notably higher than its 934 SAT mean and 66 percent AP pass rate would predict; completion rate measures something different than test-taking rigor. Lake Stevens, Meadowdale (Edmonds School District, located in Lynnwood), Mountlake Terrace, and the much smaller Granite Falls round out the top ten.
Every top-ten Snohomish County school except Granite Falls enrolls more than 1,400 students, reinforcing that the county's largest comprehensives are also its most reliable completers — a different distribution than in many parts of the state where small rural high schools dominate the graduation-rate leaderboard.
Cascade in Everett and Everett High School anchor the Everett School District's contribution, with Cascade's 96.6 percent rate notably higher than its 934 SAT mean and 66 percent AP pass rate would predict; completion rate measures something different than test-taking rigor. Every top-ten Snohomish County school except Granite Falls enrolls more than 1,400 students, reinforcing that the county's largest comprehensives are also its most reliable completers — a different distribution than in many parts of the state.
Ranked schools
- 001HENRY M. JACKSON HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH98%
- 002NORTH CREEK HIGH SCHOOLNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING97%
- 003CASCADE HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH97%
- 004GLACIER PEAK HIGH SCHOOLSNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH96%
- 005SNOHOMISH HIGH SCHOOLSNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH95%
- 006LAKE STEVENS SR HIGH SCHOOLLAKE STEVENS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH95%
- 007EVERETT HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH94%
- 008MEADOWDALE HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH92%
- 009MOUNTLAKE TERRACE HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH92%
- 010GRANITE FALLS HIGH SCHOOLGRANITE FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH92%
- 011MONROE HIGH SCHOOLMONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH91%
- 012SULTAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLSULTAN SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH91%
- 013ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOLARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH91%
- 014SEQUOIA HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH90%
- 015STANWOOD HIGH SCHOOLSTANWOOD-CAMANO SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH90%
- 016KAMIAK HIGH SCHOOLMUKILTEO SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH90%
- 017INNOVATION LAB HIGH SCHOOLNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING89%
- 018MARYSVILLE GETCHELL HIGH SCHOOLMARYSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH88%
- 019LYNNWOOD HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH87%
- 020EDMONDS WOODWAY HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH85%
- 021SKY VALLEY OPTIONSSULTAN SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH83%
- 022SKY VALLEY EDUCATION CENTERMONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH82%
- 023LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLLAKEWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH77%
- 024MARYSVILLE PILCHUCK HIGH SCHOOLMARYSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH77%
- 025EDMONDS HEIGHTS K-12EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH77%
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