Top Public High Schools in Snohomish County by SAT Mean
Snohomish County's public high school SAT distribution shows a quieter version of the King County pattern. The top three schools cluster within ten points of each other — North Creek, Kamiak, and Mountlake Terrace — and the gap between first (1273) and tenth (1173) is just one hundred points, narrower than in any Eastside-comparable list. The county's geographic split is reflected in the leaderboard: Northshore (which crosses the King-Snohomish line), Mukilteo, Edmonds, and Snohomish school districts each contribute multiple entries.
North Creek High School in Bothell leads at 1273. Opened in fall 2017 with grades 9-11 and adding seniors the following year, North Creek is the newest of Northshore School District's four comprehensives and runs more than twenty AP courses, ten University of Washington in the High School offerings, and an Aviation: Introduction to Flight elective. Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, with its Performing Arts Center supporting an award-winning band, choir, orchestra, and drama program and a 33 percent AP participation rate, sits second at 1263. Mountlake Terrace, an Edmonds School District comprehensive in the southern Snohomish County suburb of the same name, follows at 1262.
The Edmonds School District contributes three of the top eight — Edmonds Woodway, Mountlake Terrace, and Meadowdale (in Lynnwood) — a notable concentration. Edmonds Woodway's 85.4 percent graduation rate is the lowest in this top ten and worth flagging; the school runs a competitive IB Diploma cohort whose strong scores pull the SAT mean above 1240 even as overall completion lags. Glacier Peak in Snohomish (1245) and Snohomish High School itself (1184) anchor the Snohomish School District's representation. Lake Stevens Senior High and Lynnwood High School round out the lower end. Innovation Lab High School, a small Northshore choice campus enrolling about 260 students that runs project-based learning, completes the table at 1173.
The Mukilteo School District places a single school here — Kamiak — but no other secondary, while Edmonds places three. The Everett School District, despite its sheer size and despite Henry M. Jackson High School's strong performance on the graduation-rate list, does not appear in this SAT top ten; Jackson, Cascade, and Everett High School all post SAT means below 1175. The split reflects the difference between completion outcomes (where Everett School District is among Snohomish County's strongest) and college-test-rigor outcomes (where Northshore and Edmonds lead).
The Mukilteo School District places a single school here — Kamiak — but no other secondary, while Edmonds SD places three. Snohomish County's SAT distribution is unusually evenly spread, with the top three schools within ten points of one another — North Creek, Kamiak, and Mountlake Terrace — and the gap from first to tenth narrower than in most metro listicles.
Ranked schools
- 001NORTH CREEK HIGH SCHOOLNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1273
- 002KAMIAK HIGH SCHOOLMUKILTEO SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1263
- 003MOUNTLAKE TERRACE HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1262
- 004EDMONDS WOODWAY HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1246
- 005GLACIER PEAK HIGH SCHOOLSNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1245
- 006LAKE STEVENS SR HIGH SCHOOLLAKE STEVENS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1207
- 007MEADOWDALE HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1204
- 008SNOHOMISH HIGH SCHOOLSNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1184
- 009LYNNWOOD HIGH SCHOOLEDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1182
- 010INNOVATION LAB HIGH SCHOOLNORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT · KING1173
- 011MARINER HIGH SCHOOLMUKILTEO SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1158
- 012STANWOOD HIGH SCHOOLSTANWOOD-CAMANO SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1149
- 013MONROE HIGH SCHOOLMONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1145
- 014GRANITE FALLS HIGH SCHOOLGRANITE FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1110
- 015ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOLARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1105
- 016LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLLAKEWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1068
- 017HENRY M. JACKSON HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH1055
- 018MARYSVILLE PILCHUCK HIGH SCHOOLMARYSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH962
- 019MARYSVILLE GETCHELL HIGH SCHOOLMARYSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH958
- 020SEQUOIA HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH941
- 021CASCADE HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH934
- 022EVERETT HIGH SCHOOLEVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT · SNOHOMISH921
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