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Newport Senior High School

Bellevue School District · High · grades 9-12 · 4333 Factoria Blvd SE, Bellevue, WA 98006-1930

Location

4333 Factoria Blvd SE, Bellevue, WA 98006-1930

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
80.2%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
79.8%
#7 of 173 high schools region-wide · #2 of 7 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
60.7%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
58.3%
#5 of 173 high schools region-wide · #2 of 7 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Graduating in 4 years
95.5%
Of the entering 9th-grade class
Enrolled in college
85.0%
Any 2/4-year, first year after HS
9th graders on track
88.1%
Earned all attempted credits
College-level coursework
94.6%
AP / IB / Running Start / CTE
Regular attendance
87.8%
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
15.9%
English language learners
9.5%
Highly Capable program
18.3%
Enrollment
1,861
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
106
Avg years experience
16.1
MA-degree share
80.2%
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

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Nearest middle schools by distance

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

Newport Senior High School

Bellevue School District · grades 9–12 · 1,861 students · comprehensive attendance-area high school in Factoria, built around an uncapped AP model

The verdict

Newport is what happens when you run a neighborhood high school on a self-service model and fill it with one of the most academically dense student bodies in Washington. There are 27 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, no limit on how many a student may take, and a peer group (18.3% identified highly capable) that treats a five-AP schedule as unremarkable. The results are elite: a 95.5% four-year graduation rate, 97th-percentile advanced math scores against demographically similar schools, and a steady stream of national olympiad medals. But nothing here is structured for your student the way Interlake's International Baccalaureate (IB) cohort is. Newport rewards families who can plan a four-year sequence themselves and students with the drive to self-select into rigor. Those who need the school to build the ladder, including, per its own improvement-plan data, several vulnerable subgroups, currently get a much more uneven experience. The right question isn't whether Newport is strong. It's whether your student thrives when the ceiling is uncapped and the scaffolding is optional.

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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