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Cascadia Elementary

Seattle Public Schools · Elementary · grades PK, 2-5 · 1700 N 90th St, Seattle, WA 98103-4019

Location

1700 N 90th St, Seattle, WA 98103-4019

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
96.2%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
94.7%
#1 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #1 of 62 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
82.0%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
83.1%
#1 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #1 of 62 in this district
3-year trend

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
10.6%
English language learners
0.4%
Highly Capable program
94.3%
Enrollment
565
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
36
Avg years experience
10.2
MA-degree share
88.9%
3-year experience trend

Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.

Nearby schools

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Nearest middle schools by distance
Nearest Highly Capable cohort

Highly Capable / gifted pathway

Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.

Parent capital (PTA / boosters)

Aggregated from IRS Form 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Per NMSC-style caveats elsewhere on this page, PTA revenue is one signal among many, it does not measure educational quality.

Research dossier

Cascadia Elementary

Seattle Public Schools · grades 2–5 · district-wide Highly Capable Cohort option school in Licton Springs, North Seattle

The verdict

Every child in this building tested into Seattle's Highly Capable program. Cascadia is the district's dedicated Highly Capable cohort elementary for the city's north end, and no other fact about the school matters as much as that one design decision. It buys what a neighborhood school cannot: baseline math instruction set two grade levels ahead, a Math League team that won its state division in 2026, and classrooms where an advanced kid is unremarkable rather than an outlier.

But you would be enrolling in a program on a countdown. Seattle Public Schools planned to dissolve the cohort on equity grounds, reversed course in March 2025 after intense parent pushback, and now guarantees the grades 2–5 cohort only through the 2027–28 school year (district Highly Capable program update). Families who want maximum peer acceleration now, and can tolerate policy risk, get a school built precisely for their kid. Families planning a stable K–8 arc should know the full-cohort experience currently stops at 5th grade, and could be restructured again after 2028.

Researched 2026-05-28. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

That is the free excerpt. The full dossier is the rest of the file: how these outcomes hold up in context, how deep the advanced-peer group actually runs, how families get in (and who doesn't), culture signals from handbooks and climate surveys, logistics, neighborhood context, the open questions to ask on your tour, and every citation, so you can check our work. Unlock it for $9, or get a $29 Research Pass with 3 dossiers included.

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