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Interlake Senior High School

Bellevue School District · High · grades 9-12 · 16245 NE 24th St, Bellevue, WA 98008-2413

Location

16245 NE 24th St, Bellevue, WA 98008-2413

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
71.7%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
72.2%
#17 of 173 high schools region-wide · #4 of 7 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
56.3%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
56.4%
#6 of 173 high schools region-wide · #3 of 7 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Graduating in 4 years
79.6%
Of the entering 9th-grade class
Enrolled in college
81.0%
Any 2/4-year, first year after HS
9th graders on track
83.2%
Earned all attempted credits
College-level coursework
94.7%
AP / IB / Running Start / CTE
Regular attendance
78.9%
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
26.8%
English language learners
16.0%
Highly Capable program
38.6%
Enrollment
1,636
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
100
Avg years experience
13.6
MA-degree share
81.0%
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.

Nearby schools

We haven't mapped this district's official feeder chart yet, so these are the closest schools of the next level by straight-line distance, not your assigned or guaranteed schools. Your address decides the assignment. See the districts with full pathways mapped.

Nearest middle schools by distance
Nearest Highly Capable cohort

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

Interlake Senior High School

Bellevue School District · grades 9–12 · 1,636 students · attendance-area school and district Advanced Learning hub

The verdict

You likely already know Interlake's reputation. It's one of the strongest math-and-science schools in the state and, depending on who you ask, a pressure cooker. Both halves are true, but the fine print matters more than the reputation.

The structural fact behind everything: Interlake is two schools sharing a building. One is the Bellevue district's Advanced Learning (AL) hub, a cohort of nearly 600 highly capable students who mostly arrive from Odle Middle School. They take the full International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma in 10th and 11th grade, and they produced more National Merit Semifinalists in 2026 than any school in Washington, public or private. The other is a solid neighborhood high school drawing from Highland Middle School, with outcomes well above peer schools but not the state-leading numbers the trophy case suggests. If your child is in the Advanced Learning pipeline, the peer depth here is probably unmatched in the Pacific Northwest. If they're not, evaluate the general-education track on its own merits, starting with whether the IB-centric schedule leaves enough advanced electives for students outside the cohort. General-education families raise that concern in community forums, and some solve it via Running Start.

Researched 2026-06-09. 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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