Bishop Blanchet High School is a co-educational Catholic high school north of Green Lake in Seattle, opened in 1954 as the first co-ed Catholic high school in the Archdiocese of Seattle. The school enrolls about 854 students in grades 9-12 at a 13:1 student-teacher ratio, and reports that 99% of graduates go on to a four-year college.
In the Seattle Catholic high-school landscape, Bishop Blanchet's peer set is consistently named alongside Seattle Preparatory School (Capitol Hill, Jesuit, co-ed since 1979), Holy Names Academy (Capitol Hill, all-girls, Catholic), and O'Dea High School (First Hill, all-boys, Christian Brothers). Among them, Seattle Prep is generally regarded as the academic top of the Catholic options and a Lakeside / UPrep cross-shop; Holy Names is the all-girls option (no Lakeside parallel); O'Dea the all-boys; and Bishop Blanchet the larger neighborhood co-ed option that draws heavily from north-Seattle parish K-8 feeders. Eastside Catholic Schools rounds out the metro Catholic landscape on the Eastside.
The academic program includes 28 honors and AP classes plus 80+ electives, with college-credit partnerships through UW-in-the-High-School and SU-in-the-High-School. Athletically, the Braves compete in the Metro League — one of the state's most competitive — with over 198 Metro titles. Tuition is $19,450 at the highest grade. PolarisList ranks Blanchet #91 in WA for Harvard / Princeton / MIT placements.
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