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Sacred Heart School

Private school · Bellevue, King County · grades PK, K-8 · Roman Catholic

Snapshot

K-12 enrollment
401
SBE-reported, 2024-25
Student-teacher ratio
11.9:1
NCES PSS, 2021-22
Teachers (FTE)
34
NCES PSS, 2021-22

Identity and approval

Campus
Sacred Heart School, 9450 NE 14th St, Bellevue 98004
Host public district
Bellevue School District
Grades
PK, K-8
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic
WA SBE approval
2026-27 (state-approved private school)
Profit status
Nonprofit

Enrollment

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404243434849465040

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
11%
Black
2%
Hispanic
10%
White
77%

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

Sacred Heart School

Catholic parish school in Bellevue (on the Clyde Hill border) · PK–8 · 401 K-8 students plus 31 in pre-K (WA SBE, 2024-25) · coed ministry of Sacred Heart Parish, Archdiocese of Seattle

The verdict

Sacred Heart's price tag is written twice, once in dollars and once in participation. The dollars run $18,375 for a non-parishioner child in 2026-27, or $14,025 (a $4,350 discount) for families verified as active parishioners. The participation is a mandatory annual service job with a $2,000 fee for opting out, plus tuition assistance that the school explicitly conditions on a family's "record of meeting obligations". What that buys, at roughly a third of the sticker price of Seattle's secular independents, is a two-section-per-grade school with negligible attrition and faculty tenure the school reports at over 12 years. Its 8th-grade placement operation routinely feeds Eastside Catholic and O'Dea and has recently landed graduates at Lakeside and Choate Rosemary Hall. The fit test is blunt. Dual-career households with no slack for volunteer shifts, secular families uneasy with religious instruction woven through every subject, and children needing more than short-term learning support should weigh this school skeptically.

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

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