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Pine Lake Middle School

Issaquah School District · Middle · grades 6-8 · 3095 Issaquah Pine Lake Rd SE, Sammamish, WA 98075-7253

Location

3095 Issaquah Pine Lake Rd SE, Sammamish, WA 98075-7253

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
81.8%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
79.8%
#9 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #2 of 6 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
56.1%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
51.5%
#7 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #1 of 6 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Growth vs academic peers
59
50 = typical · ELA 56 · math 61
Regular attendance
90.2%
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
8.3%
English language learners
4.6%
Highly Capable program
12.0%
Enrollment
888
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
56
Avg years experience
18.0
MA-degree share
80.4%
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.

School pathway

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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

Pine Lake Middle School

Issaquah School District · grades 6–8 · 888 students · attendance-area middle school in Sammamish whose graduates continue to Skyline High School

The verdict

The most revealing number at Pine Lake isn't a test score. It's this: more than 500 of the school's 888 students qualified for the building's Honor Society, which takes a cumulative 3.7 grade point average (GPA). High achievement here is the default setting, not the exception, and that cuts both ways. Your child gets a peer group where working hard is unremarkable and the math ceiling is effectively unlimited. They also inherit serious grade compression: a student who would headline the honor roll elsewhere is statistically mid-pack at Pine Lake.

The second thing to understand is that Pine Lake runs like a magnet program wearing a neighborhood school's clothes. Speech and debate is a for-credit elective sequence rather than a club, over half the student body takes a formal music elective, and the district's most extreme math acceleration (three grade levels ahead) is available to those who test into it. Kids who compete, join, and self-start will find an unusually rich menu. Look hardest before committing if your child's confidence depends on standing out, or if you want climate-survey evidence first, because Pine Lake's building-level belonging and safety results aren't public.

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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