Top Public High Schools in Seattle + Eastside by SAT Mean
Seattle and the Eastside lead Washington's public-school SAT distribution by a wide margin. The Eastside choice and gifted programs — Tesla STEM (Lake Washington SD's selective STEM magnet) and Interlake (Bellevue SD's district-wide highly-capable hub) — sit at the top of the metro on SAT mean, pulling above 1380 on average. International School (BSD's IB Continuum 6-12) joins them at the top of the lens.
Below the magnet programs, the strong neighborhood comprehensives carry the rest of the list. Newport, Bellevue High, Skyline, Eastlake, Issaquah, Redmond, and Mercer Island all sit above 1280 SAT mean — well above the WA public-school median in the high 900s. Seattle Public Schools' Lincoln, Roosevelt, Ballard, and Garfield round out the strongest Seattle-side comprehensives; Garfield in particular places higher on SAT than on SBA proficiency, a long-standing pattern tied to the school's Highly Capable Cohort feeding into a wide-enrollment building.
Schools further down the list approach the 1200 mark — still well above the WA public median but below the Eastside comprehensive baseline. The geographic shape of this lens is unusually compact: nearly every school in the top fifteen sits between I-5 in Seattle and the eastern edge of the Sammamish plateau.
Ranked schools
- 001NIKOLA TESLA STEM HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1402
- 002MERCER ISLAND HIGH SCHOOLMERCER ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1323
- 003ISSAQUAH HIGH SCHOOLISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1310
- 004REDMOND HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1308
- 005EASTLAKE HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1293
- 006SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOLISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1285
- 007INTERLAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1280
- 008NEWPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1274
- 009LAKE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1268
- 010INGLEMOOR HSNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1256
- 011LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING1247
- 012SHOREWOOD HIGH SCHOOLSHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1244
- 013JUANITA HIGH SCHOOLLAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1243
- 014BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1233
- 015WOODINVILLE HSNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1232
- 016SHORECREST HIGH SCHOOLSHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1228
- 017ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING1209
- 018BOTHELL HIGH SCHOOLNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1198
- 019GIBSON EK HIGH SCHOOLISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1191
- 020CEDARCREST HIGH SCHOOLRIVERVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1190
- 021BALLARD HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING1167
- 022INGRAHAM HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING1153
- 023WEST SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING1135
- 024RAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOLHIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1130
- 025GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOLSEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 · KING1118
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