| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 146 | 129 | 141 | 233 | 227 | 192 | 185 |
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.
Known results compiled from public competition listings (National Merit press lists, tournament PDFs, The Blue Alliance). A missing result is not evidence of absence.
Independent school on Capitol Hill, Seattle · grades 6–12 · 1,253 students (WA SBE, 2024-25) · nonsectarian coed day school accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS) · everyone calls it SAAS.
Your shorthand for SAAS is probably "the big, modern, less stuffy independent," and it is roughly right, but worth unpacking before you pay for it. Big is an understatement. At 1,253 students (WA State Board of Education, 2024-25) and a projected 1,308 for 2025-26, SAAS is Seattle's largest independent school, still growing while its host district shrinks. Less stuffy is also real: no Advanced Placement (AP) courses on principle, no class rank, no valedictorian, and arts required of every student. Do not mistake the informality for lightness, though. The pedagogy is built on performance, meaning your child will speak, defend, act, and present in front of audiences constantly, and graduation requires 120 service hours plus a college-level senior internship. The actual bet at $52,940 (2026-27) is that a transcript with no AP labels, decoded by the school's counseling apparatus, travels as far as a conventional one. The evidence says it mostly does. The kid who thrives here wants the stage; the kid who wants a quiet, credential-stamped, test-optimized path is buying the wrong product.
Researched 2026-07-04. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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