Eastside Christian School is a private nondenominational Christian preschool-through-grade-8 day school in Bellevue, established in 1969 by Eastside families and operating continuously for over 50 years from its 14615 SE 22nd Street campus near the I-90 / I-405 junction. Enrollment runs around 270 with a 10:1 student-teacher ratio and tuition near $20,860 for the highest grade — among the higher rates for evangelical K-8 schools in the region.
Among Eastside Christian K-8 options, ECS sits between the much larger and explicitly Reformed Bellevue Christian Schools (~900 students K-12) and the smaller parish schools like Sacred Heart and St. Louise. It's often paired in family searches with Bellevue Christian and Cedar Park Christian (Bothell) for evangelical families weighing size, faith integration depth, and curriculum approach. The school is accredited through the Association of Christian Schools International and approved by the State of Washington.
The program pairs core academics with Bible and chapel time, music, technology, athletics, art, drama, and Spanish, structured around a Christian-worldview curriculum. Reviewer feedback consistently calls out low teacher turnover and small class sizes as defining characteristics — a pattern that holds across the small-evangelical-K-8 category. ECS draws families from Bellevue, Issaquah, Newcastle, and the surrounding King County communities.
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