8001 NE 8th St, Medina, WA 98039-4710
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 PK–5 · 592 students · neighborhood school for Medina and Clyde Hill and one of the district's four Centered Services (self-contained highly capable) elementary host sites
Nearly half of Medina Elementary, 46.3% of enrollment, is formally identified highly capable, a figure almost no neighborhood public school in Washington can match. That isn't organic. Medina is one of four Bellevue elementaries hosting the district's Centered Services cohort (district Advanced Learning services page), so district-placed advanced learners stack on top of an already affluent catchment (5.7% low-income). The result is a school at the 100th percentile of its 39-school demographic peer group, wrapped in a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) enrichment operation that functions like a private school bolted onto a public one. Think debate tournaments, $800 robotics, and a chartered ski bus to Alpental.
The fine print is threefold. The enrichment runs on fees and parent labor, not district budget. The school's own improvement plan flags a real literacy slide among its multilingual learners. And a district-wide $20 million budget cut is trimming exactly the tutoring and behavior supports the PTA doesn't fund. For a Centered-placed or boundary family with money and bandwidth, this is about as strong as public elementary gets. Just don't mistake the topline for the whole picture.
Researched 2026-06-09. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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