St. Brendan Catholic School is Bothell's only Catholic school, serving PreK-8 with approximately 252 students and a student-teacher ratio of 15:1. The school operates as a ministry of St. Brendan Parish in the Archdiocese of Seattle. Within Bothell and the surrounding north King County / south Snohomish corridor, it is the only Catholic K-8 option, which gives it effective monopoly status for parish-affiliated families in the geography.
The peer set is the broader Archdiocese of Seattle K-8 network: St. Joseph (Issaquah), St. Louise (Bellevue), Holy Family (Kirkland), Sacred Heart (Bellevue, the larger Catholic K-8), and St. John School (Seattle's Maple Leaf neighborhood). For Bothell families weighing alternatives, the secular and evangelical cohorts include Cedar Park Christian (Bothell, K-12, much larger), Trinity Lutheran (Bothell), and the Northshore-area Christian schools. The non-Catholic secular independent option in the geography requires commuting to Eastside Prep (Kirkland) or Overlake (Redmond).
The academic program is conventional Catholic college-prep with religion integrated across grades, typical Archdiocese accreditation, and standard parish-school athletics through the CYO league. Graduates typically continue to Eastside Catholic (Sammamish, the largest Catholic 6-12 east of Seattle), Bishop Blanchet, Holy Names, O'Dea, or Seattle Prep — the standard Seattle Catholic high-school pipeline. Tuition runs around $10,300 for in-parish students.
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