Sacred Heart School is a Catholic preschool-through-grade-8 parish school on the Clyde Hill ridge just north of downtown Bellevue, founded in 1952 as the first Catholic school established on Seattle's Eastside. Land was donated by the Downey family after the first Lake Washington floating bridge accelerated the area's residential growth, and the campus has since added a 2009 Integrus-designed renovation funded by an $8.7M capital campaign.
The school enrolls roughly 440 students across two sections per grade with a student-teacher ratio near 13:1, placing it among the larger Eastside Catholic K-8 parish schools alongside St. Louise (downtown Bellevue, ~335 students) and St. Thomas in Medina (~370). Tuition for the eighth-grade year sits around $15,600, on the higher end among Archdiocese of Seattle parish schools — a reflection both of the Clyde Hill catchment's affluence and the school's longer co-curricular slate (Spanish, art, music, technology, daily religion, weekly Mass, and middle-school athletics through the Catholic Youth Organization).
Sacred Heart is accredited through the Western Catholic Educational Association and operates as a parish school of the Archdiocese of Seattle. It functions as a feeder to the Archdiocesan high schools (Eastside Catholic, Bishop Blanchet, Kennedy Catholic, Forest Ridge) and to Seattle Prep — the standard Eastside Catholic-trajectory many families weigh when choosing between SHS, St. Louise, and St. Thomas at the K-8 stage.
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