Archbishop Murphy High School is a co-educational private Catholic college-preparatory school in Everett, serving about 430 students in grades 9-12 with a roughly 10:1 student-teacher ratio and tuition around $17,500. Among Catholic high schools in the Puget Sound region, Archbishop Murphy is one of two co-ed Catholic options north of Seattle (alongside Eastside Catholic in Sammamish on the Eastside) and is the only Archdiocese-area Catholic high school in Snohomish County.
The school's defining identity is football. The program won a state title in its first full season (2002) under coach Terry Ennis; from 2002-19 the Wildcats reached six title games and won three. After a steep decline (0-8 in 2022, losing by an average of 37-8), the program turned around under coach Joe Cronin, going 6-4 in 2023 and capping the rebuild with the 2025 Class 2A State Championship — an undefeated 13-0 season that beat Tumwater 35-20 in the final. The DREAM Auction is the school's central annual fundraising event.
Academically Archbishop Murphy operates a standard Catholic college-prep curriculum but, like Kennedy Catholic, does not file the OSPI Report Card and detailed assessment data is not published. Within the Catholic-co-ed-college-prep peer set, Archbishop Murphy is generally regarded as the most football-driven and the most regionally distinct (no other large Catholic option north of Everett), with academics and faith formation positioned around the athletic program rather than ahead of it.
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