Issaquah School District in Washington State

Issaquah, Washington is a great place to raise a family, located in the lush green North West there is no end to outdoor recreation, water and mountain sports, and close enough to Seattle to enjoy all of the benefits of a large, international city. The Issaquah School district is one of the best in the state, ranked # 7 of Washington State School Districts.

The Issaquah school district has recently spent hundreds of millions of dollars on it’s school facilities building beautiful state of the art schools with modern technology setting up students for success in life and University studies. Not only are these schools sought after by parents in the area for academics, sports, teaching staff and overall facilities, but the entire district was awarded a green leader school award. The schools strive to reduce their environmental footprints impact and cost, teaching students sustainability and environmental education.

Below are some facts and figures about some of the high quality schools in the Issaquah School District.

 

Elementary Schools

Discovery Elementary SchoolDiscovery Elementary School In The Issaquah School District

Discovery Elementary School is located just East of beautiful Pine Lake park, although the building has been rebuilt from the original one room schoolhouse to a modern 32 room building, there has been a school located on this site for 111 years.

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  • Grade Range: PK-5
  • 600 students currently registered
  • Student Teacher ratio roughly 24:1 depending on grade level
  • Ranked #14th of elementary schools in Washington State
  • Students received an overall average of 91% state standards test results in 2014-2015
  • Extracurricular activities include: choir, green team, K-kids programs that have community projects helping families in need, running club and global reading challenge, 4th and 5th grade math tutoring, safety patrol and garden club.
  • Before and after school classes including Spanish, Mandarin, drama, chess, martial arts are offered
  • Before and after school care is available for students with a variety of activities and programs.

 

Sunny Hills Elementary Schoolsunny-hills-elementary-school

Sunny Hills Elementary was awarded over thirty-two million dollars for a brand new school building opening up this year in 2016. The new school has 32 classrooms and a new playing field.

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  • Grade Range: K-5
  • 630 students currently registered
  • State funded for full day kindergarten
  • Extracurriculars are currently on hold while staff and children move into new building.
  • Students received an overall average of 89.9% state standards test results in 2014-2015

 

Creekside Elementary SchoolCreekside Elementary School

Creekside Elementary School is a beautiful, state of the art, green built elementary school with natural lighting and rain water systems used for student gardens and recycling. Creekside prides themselves on reducing energy and being a sustainable, green school. Creekside is a head and tail above most other elementary schools in their commitment to providing enrichment programs, clubs and extracurricular activities for almost any new interest the students may have.

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  • Grade Range: 1-6
  • 710 students currently registered
  • Student teacher ratio 24:1 on average depending on grade level
  • Students received an overall average of 79.9% State standards test results in 2014-2015
  • Awarded: 2011 Terry Husseman Sustainable School Award
  • Green Leader School Pillar One status
  • Certificate of Excellence in 2012’s Zero Waste Challenge.
  • Grants: Enrichment grants from Issaquah schools foundation, Issaquah Arts Commission and grants for Leadership training and teaching materials were given to the teachers.
  • Creekside has a number of clubs and extracurricular activities available including; student concerts, art, chess, newspaper, homework, marimba and choir clubs, environmental education programs, guest speakers, student council, safety patrol, reading and math programs, cross country club, before and after school program

 

Middle Schools

Maywood Middle Schoolmaywood-middle-school

Maywood middle school has just completed over a twenty-five-million-dollar renovation project that is opening up for the 2016 school year.

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  • Grade Range: 6-8
  • 957 students currently registered
  • Student-teacher ratio roughly 23:1 depending on class
  • Ranked 40 of 441 schools in student testing using test scores from SBA English Language Arts, SBA Math and MSP Science.
  • Students had an overall average score on these tests of 73%
  • Maywood Middle School offers advanced courses in Language Arts, Math, Science with high participation rates.
  • Student Organizations: Association of Washington student leaders and student council.
  • Maywood offers before and after school care including break and summer camp programs.
  • Extracurricular activities; builders club, drama, green team, library club, math club and lab, national junior honor society, robotics, Rubik’s cube club and science club
  • Four seasons of athletics are offered including girl’s varsity and JV soccer.

 

Pine Lake Middle Schoolpine-lake-middle-school

Pine Lake Middle School is in the middle of a multi-phase, $71,000,000 reconstruction project with a projected completion date of September of 2018. This school is located in the Pine Lake area East of Lake Sammamish.

 

Pacific Cascade Middle Schoolpacific-cascade-middle-school

Pacific Cascade was opened as a middle school in 2010 and serves students East of Lake Sammamish State park.

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  • Grade Range: 6-8
  • 895 students currently registered
  • Overall Average state exam test rate of 83.8 for the 2014-15 school year
  • Ranked #18 of best overall quality middle schools in Washington State
  • Extracurricular activities: student body organization and the National Junior Honor Society
  • Clubs including; board game club, chess, cricket, green team, leadership, math, my little pony, peer tutoring, robotics, scrapbook and video game club. Where everybody belongs club where students work together helping other students to succeed, building a strong foundation for community and social relationships.
  • Pacific Cascade Middle offers four seasons of athletics including volleyball, softball, cross-country, girls and boys basketball, wrestling, soccer and track.
  • Overall academic average standard test scores of 75% in the 2014-15 school year.

 

High Schools

Issaquah High SchoolIssaquah High School In The Issaquah School District

Issaquah High School is a beautiful, light and window filled school, one of Washington State’s best schools overall, it is continually rising above the other schools in terms of performance ratings, test scores, academics, teachers and every other area. This is a great place to have your children move and excel setting them up for success in college. Issaquah High School is located in an environmentally rich area of Washington between four large State and Wildlife parks just South of Lake Sammamish.

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  • Grade Range: 9-12
  • Ranked #12 High School in Washington State
  • 2,032 students currently registered
  • Ranked #9 best food #6 Best Teachers #6 Best Academics
  • Ranked #976 in National H.S. Rankings earning a silver medal ranked by performance on state tests and college readiness
  • 124.5 Performance index on State Tests
  • 90% exam pass rate overall
  • Ranked best administration in Washington state schools
  • 17 AP Courses offered
  • 47% Participation rate on AP classes
  • Over 6 Honors Courses Offered
  • Students have an opportunity to take dual credits at local or technical colleges, they also have the choice to earn tech and high school credits at the same time through 14 tech prep courses offered at the H.S. 5 college courses are offered to students through the H.S. as an opportunity to earn credits in college and H.S. level at the same time.
  • Extracurricular activities; Band, choir orchestra, theater, cheer, student body, dance, DECA, eagle crew, journalism, video productions, National Honor Society and yearbook.
  • 54 Student clubs and organizations to choose from.
  • Athletics available to students on Varsity and JV levels in football, volleyball, cross country, swimming, soccer, golf, tennis, baseball, track and field and softball.

 

Liberty Sr High Schoolliberty-high-school

Located South East of Lake Washington in the Renton area, Liberty Sr High School  is close to the beautiful Tiger Mountain State forest and Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park. Liberty High School has recently completed a multi phase modernization, renovation project to its campus.

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  • Grade Range: 9-12
  • Ranked #11 in WA H.S.
  • 94% graduation rate
  • 1219 students currently registered
  • Earned a silver medal in the National rankings as #904 school in the country
  • Overall student average test ranking of 96% in English
  • State performance index of 114.5
  • Exam pass rate 69%
  • 17 AP and dual enrollment courses available
  • Participation rate in AP classes is 59%
  • 3 Honors Courses Offered
  • Extracurricular activities include Band, choir, orchestra, theater, student body, cheer, DECA drill, National Honor Society, NJROTC, Patriot Crew, Patriot Press, Yearbook, Graduating class organizations.
  • 23 Student Clubs Available
  • 18 Athletic opportunities at the Varsity and Junior Varsity level

 

Skyline High Schoolskyline-high-school

Skyline High School is a quality school with great teachers, academics and overall quality in Washington State. From 2007-10 Skyline High School underwent significant renovations which added 24 new classrooms and science labs, a theater, and additional athletic facilities.