8040 NE 132nd St, Kirkland, WA 98034-2522
Directly from OSPI Report Card (graduation, postsecondary via ERDC, ninth-grade on track, dual credit, growth, attendance). Latest published year.
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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Beginning 2025-26 the district shifted K-5 services to Classroom-Based Services (CBS) delivered by general-ed teachers in students' neighborhood schools, replacing the former K5HC weekly 30-minute pull-outs. Full-Time Quest (elementary self-contained) and Middle School Quest continue without service-model changes. The earlier Part-Time Quest (POQ) pull-out was discontinued after 2024-25; existing 2nd-5th POQ students transitioned to Full-Time Quest in fall 2025.
Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.
Lake Washington School District · grades 6–8 · 139 students · lottery-admitted option school co-located on the Finn Hill Middle School campus in Kirkland
Everything about this school flows from one number: 49. That's how many sixth-grade seats the Environmental & Adventure School (EAS) admits each year, by blind district lottery, from an applicant pool that routinely tops 500 (EAS lottery update). You cannot buy your way in by address; living in the district only earns you a lottery ticket. The real decision point is a November application in your child's fifth-grade fall, and the most likely outcome is a waitlist number.
What the winners get is a genuinely different middle school: multi-grade classrooms on a three-year thematic cycle, mandatory week-long outdoor expeditions, standards-based grading with real teeth, and a family contract (money, volunteer hours, driving) that most public schools would never dare put in writing. The academics hold up, sitting at the 95th percentile against demographic peers, but this is not the district's competition-team track, and highly capable students give up their formal Quest cohort seat to attend. EAS fits families who want depth of experience over acceleration and can absorb its costs in dollars and hours. Families who want a conventional honors ladder should probably stay at their neighborhood school.
Researched 2026-06-10. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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