Bellevue Christian School (BCS) is an independent, interdenominational Christian PreK-12 school whose secondary campus sits in Clyde Hill, with elementary feeders in Medina and Woodinville. Founded in 1950 by brothers Albert and Joseph Greene and corporation-run rather than parish- or denomination-affiliated, BCS draws students from more than 160 congregations across the Eastside and enrolls about 900 across three campuses.
Among Eastside private schools, BCS's most direct peers are Eastside Christian School (Bellevue) and The Bear Creek School (Redmond) — all three serve the evangelical Christian family market, though BCS is the largest and the most denominationally neutral. Bellevue Christian is sometimes cross-shopped with The Overlake School and Eastside Preparatory School for academic rigor, but the comparison ends at curriculum: BCS retains a chapel and theology requirement, ACSI accreditation, and an explicitly Christian worldview embedded across subjects, which the secular-independent peers do not. Annual tuition (~$21,700) sits below the secular-Eastside K-12 schools and above the parochial Catholic schools.
BCS competes in the WIAA Nisqually League as the Vikings and fields 16 varsity teams; girls basketball has been a consistent Class 1A contender. The Clyde Hill campus houses grades 7-12 while Three Points (Medina) and Mack Tharpe (Woodinville) handle PK-6 — an unusual feeder model that means most BCS families commit early and stay through high school, with two campus moves built into the K-12 arc.
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