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Hamlin Robinson School

Private school · Seattle, King County · grades 1-8 · Nonsectarian

Snapshot

K-12 enrollment
417
SBE-reported, 2024-25
Student-teacher ratio
9.4:1
NCES PSS, 2021-22
Teachers (FTE)
35
NCES PSS, 2021-22

Identity and approval

Campus
Hamlin Robinson School, 1701 20th Ave S, Seattle 98144
Host public district
Seattle School District
Grades
1-8
Religious affiliation
Nonsectarian
WA SBE approval
2026-27 (state-approved private school)
Profit status
Nonprofit

Enrollment

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720437260777068

Enrollment by grade, 2024-25 school year, as reported to the WA State Board of Education.

Academics

Washington private schools are not required to publish state assessment results. No public score data exists for this school.

Student demographics

Asian
6%
Black
5%
Hispanic
5%
White
74%

NCES Private School Universe Survey, 2021-22 (the most recent federal collection). Private-school demographics are reported biennially and lag public-school data.

Research dossier

Hamlin Robinson School

Independent school in North Beacon Hill, Seattle · grades 1-8 · 417 students (Washington State Board of Education, 2024-25) · nonsectarian day school built entirely around dyslexia and language-based learning differences

The verdict

If you're researching this school, your child is probably bright, probably miserable about reading, and probably not getting enough from a public Individualized Education Program (IEP) or a mainstream classroom. Judge Hamlin Robinson on its own terms: it is not a prep school with a support program bolted on, because the whole institution is the accommodation. Every classroom runs the Slingerland Approach, a classroom-scale adaptation of Orton-Gillingham multisensory instruction, so your child is never the exception being pulled out of class. Just as deliberately, it ends at 8th grade. The product is remediation plus an exit ramp back into mainstream high schools, and the class of 2025 split 53% to public schools and 47% to independents. The cost question is stark, $34,750 to $37,310 for 2026-27 against a free public IEP. But the school holds a state Nonpublic Agency designation that lets districts fund a placement in rare cases, and a quarter of families get need-based aid averaging $18,000. Families who want a school to keep through 12th grade, or whose child's needs extend well beyond language processing, are the ones who should keep looking.

Researched 2026-07-04. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

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