| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 24 | 31 | 35 | 32 | 30 | 26 | 30 |
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25 school year, as reported to the WA State Board of Education.
Source: the school's own tuition page · aid page, observed 2026-07-03. Tuition changes annually, verify before applying.
NCES Private School Universe Survey, 2021-22 (the most recent federal collection). Private-school demographics are reported biennially and lag public-school data.
Independent Catholic girls' school on Somerset Hill in Bellevue · grades 5-12 · 220 students (Washington State Board of Education, 2024-25) · the Pacific Northwest's only Sacred Heart network school, accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS), with a small residential boarding cohort
Forest Ridge asks families to make two unfashionable bets at once. The first is the obvious one: that an all-girls environment produces more academic risk-taking and leadership reps than a coed school. The second is quieter and matters more for college planning. There is no Advanced Placement (AP) and no International Baccalaureate (IB) here; third-party records suggest an IB designation around 2011 that has since been decommissioned. In their place the school runs a proprietary six-module block schedule, elective two-year "Endorsement Pathways," and a senior research capstone. That trade buys depth and calm, but it also makes the transcript illegible without the counseling office's translation. Then add the fact a tour won't volunteer: the state roster shows 220 students against 316 in the 2021-22 federal survey, a roughly 30% contraction in three years, with just 12 fifth graders enrolled in 2024-25. A girl who wants to captain, edit, and found things will find open lanes everywhere here. Families who want AP scores as insurance, big-team competition in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), or certainty about cohort scale should scrutinize hard. And non-Catholic families, the majority as it happens, should know that religious participation carries no opt-out.
Researched 2026-07-04. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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