12400 NE 32nd St, Bellevue, WA 98005-1610
Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.
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Elementary Centered Services run as full-day self-contained cohorts at designated sites, using one-grade-advanced standards in core subjects. Middle and high school students move through advanced classes as a cohort within their neighborhood school. High school cohort enrolls in IB in grades 10-11 with the goal of completing the IB diploma at the end of 11th grade.
Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.
Bellevue School District · grades K-5 · 553 students · attendance-area school and one of four Bellevue Centered Services host sites
Start with one number: 41.4% of Cherry Crest students carry a formal highly capable designation. That's per state data from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), 2024-25, and it is not a neighborhood accident. Cherry Crest hosts self-contained classrooms for Bellevue's Centered Services advanced-learning program in grades 2–5, so a large share of the building tested in from other attendance areas and commutes to Bridle Trails daily. Evaluate it as a program site first and a neighborhood school second.
That framing changes the questions for both kinds of families. If your child qualifies for Centered Services, Cherry Crest delivers what the model promises: full-day classrooms of identified peers taught a grade ahead. The door in runs through the district's testing calendar, not the real-estate market. If you live in the boundary and your child isn't in the cohort, the school is still a top-decile performer, but look past the averages. Advanced English language arts (ELA) scores have slid for three straight years, and the school's own climate data shows low-income students feel markedly less belonging than their classmates. The open-transfer door is also shut for 2026-27, so the address is the only conventional way in.
Researched 2026-06-09. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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