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Bainbridge High School

Bainbridge Island School District · High · grades 9-12 · 9330 NE High School Rd, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2619

Location

9330 NE High School Rd, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2619

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
83.9%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
83.4%
#4 of 173 high schools region-wide · #1 of 2 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
55.1%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
55.4%
#8 of 173 high schools region-wide · #1 of 2 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Graduating in 4 years
97.2%
Of the entering 9th-grade class
Enrolled in college
54.0%
Any 2/4-year, first year after HS
9th graders on track
96.2%
Earned all attempted credits
College-level coursework
66.1%
AP / IB / Running Start / CTE
Regular attendance
73.5%
Missing fewer than 2 days/month

Directly from OSPI Report Card (graduation, postsecondary via ERDC, ninth-grade on track, dual credit, growth, attendance). Latest published year.

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
10.8%
English language learners
1.5%
Highly Capable program
16.7%
Enrollment
1,227
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
61
Avg years experience
17.1
MA-degree share
82.0%
3-year experience trend

Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.

School pathway

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Competition and advanced-peer evidence

Aggregated from WHSCA, Washington Science Olympiad, The Blue Alliance, and the Seattle Times National Merit list. "Known counts" only, missing public evidence is not proof of absence.

Highly Capable / gifted pathway

Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.

Research dossier

Bainbridge High School

Bainbridge Island School District · grades 9–12 · 1,227 students · the island's one comprehensive high school

The verdict

Bainbridge High is what a high school looks like when an entire island pours into a single building and the community treats that building as its civic centerpiece. The headline numbers are close to unimprovable: a 97.2% four-year graduation rate, 92.8% of students meeting standard in English, and three-quarters of graduates heading straight to college. The extracurricular ceiling is genuinely national, too. The robotics team won its division at the 2026 FIRST Championship and played on the Einstein field against the top eight alliances in the world.

The fine print is about how advanced kids are served. 16.7% of students carry a Highly Capable designation, but there is no gifted cohort or self-contained accelerated track here. The district's official service model for grades 9–12 is to point Highly Capable students at the existing Honors, Advanced Placement (AP), and College in the High School catalog (district service-model page). The ceiling is real, but there is no pre-built accelerated path: a student reaches it by stacking Advanced Placement courses, Running Start at a nearby college, and a handful of elite clubs on their own initiative. Families should also know the school takes its own pressure culture seriously enough to have installed a clinical counseling service inside the building. That's a genuine asset, and also a tell about the environment it exists to buffer.

Researched 2026-06-27. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

That is the free excerpt. The full dossier is the rest of the file: how these outcomes hold up in context, how deep the advanced-peer group actually runs, how families get in (and who doesn't), culture signals from handbooks and climate surveys, logistics, neighborhood context, the open questions to ask on your tour, and every citation, so you can check our work. Unlock it for $9, or get a $29 Research Pass with 3 dossiers included.

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