12300 Main St, Bellevue, WA 98005-3534
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 · PK, K–5 · 577 students · lottery-entry Mandarin dual-language choice school
Applying to Jing Mei is not really an elementary-school decision. It's a bet on a K–12 language pipeline: the region's only 90/10 two-way Mandarin immersion program, rolling up through Tillicum Middle School to a dual-language diploma at Newport High. The entry point is a kindergarten lottery you mostly get one shot at. Miss it, and later entry requires passing a written-and-oral Mandarin exam for a seat that may never open.
The academic trade is unusually legible in the data. Math results are elite: 92.7% meeting standard and improving, with two-thirds of students scoring at the advanced level. English scores merely track the middle of the school's demographic peer group, the predictable cost of a model that delivers just 10% of instruction in English through second grade. The genuine conflict to plan for: a child who qualifies for Bellevue's self-contained highly capable cohort cannot take it at Jing Mei. That family has to pick a track, Mandarin or the cohort, usually around second grade.
Researched 2026-06-10. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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