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Evergreen Middle School

Lake Washington School District · Middle · grades 6-8 · 6900 208th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98053-4715

Location

6900 208th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98053-4715

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
84.0%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
82.1%
#4 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #4 of 12 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
65.3%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
61.8%
#2 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #2 of 12 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Growth vs academic peers
63
50 = typical · ELA 59 · math 67
Regular attendance
85.2%
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
8.8%
English language learners
5.6%
Highly Capable program
45.8%
Enrollment
764
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
45
Avg years experience
12.2
MA-degree share
82.2%
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.

School pathway

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Evergreen Middle splits between Redmond and Eastlake high schools by sub-area.

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

Evergreen Middle School

Lake Washington School District · grades 6–8 · 764 students · attendance-area school and regional Middle School Quest (highly capable) site in Redmond

The verdict

Nearly half of Evergreen's students carry a formal Highly Capable designation: 45.8%, per the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), 2024-25. That one statistic explains almost everything else here: the state-championship Science Olympiad teams, the National Science Bowl trips to Washington D.C., the 97th-percentile advanced scores, and the fact that the doors are shut. Evergreen hosts one of Lake Washington School District's (LWSD) Middle School Quest cohorts, the self-contained highly capable program, which imports identified students from feeder patterns across the Sammamish Plateau. The resulting demand has the school listed as closed to all transfers and in-district variances for 2026-27 (district open-schools list, May 2026). There are exactly two ways in: live inside the boundary, or be placed into Middle School Quest by the district's assessment committee, a decision made in elementary school rather than at enrollment time.

Two caveats belong next to the trophy shelf. First, the enrichment engine that produces those competition results is run largely by the Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA), funded by fees and parent labor, and the district provides no after-school activity bus. The famous opportunities assume a parent who can drive at 4 p.m. Second, this is a strict, high-structure building where district survey data shows workload concerns rising, and regular attendance sags noticeably by eighth grade. For a competition-minded STEM kid with logistical support at home, Evergreen may be the strongest public middle school peer group in Washington. For a kid who needs looseness, warmth, or slack, read the culture section carefully.

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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