4301 228th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98053-8304
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.
We haven't mapped this district's official feeder chart yet, so these are the closest schools of the next level by straight-line distance, not your assigned or guaranteed schools. Your address decides the assignment. See the districts with full pathways mapped.
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.
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 9–12 · 609 students · district-wide lottery choice school in Redmond, built entirely around science and engineering
Tesla STEM is the rare famous school that neither money nor address can buy. There is no attendance boundary, no entrance exam, and no grade-point screen. A randomized district lottery decides who gets one of roughly 150 seats per grade, and as of June 2026 the 9th-grade waitlist stood at 250 students. What a lottery winner receives is less a menu than a contract: four mandatory years of math and science (graduates average six science courses and four math courses), Advanced Placement (AP) coursework starting with AP Computer Science Principles in 9th grade, and humanities deliberately held to the state minimum to make room for it all. The output is extraordinary for a school this size: 18 National Merit Semifinalists in the Class of 2026, a 97.93% four-year graduation rate, and 95% of graduates heading to four-year colleges.
The people who should look closer are not the ones worried about rigor; they're the ones whose kid wants breadth. The school offers one world language (Spanish, three years maximum), no on-campus athletics, and no large band or orchestra, and since the district's 2025-26 move to a six-period day there is visibly less schedule room outside the STEM spine. The trade is depth for breadth, on purpose. Decide whether your student wants it before entering the lottery.
Researched 2026-06-10. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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