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Garfield High School

Seattle Public Schools · High · grades 9-12 · 400 23rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98122-6025

Location

400 23rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98122-6025

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard — latest year
51.0%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard — 3-year
57.5%
#47 of 173 high schools region-wide · #6 of 15 in this district
Exceeding standard — latest year
29.3%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard — 3-year
34.2%
#38 of 173 high schools region-wide · #6 of 15 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Graduating in 4 years
91.2%
Of the entering 9th-grade class
Enrolled in college
68.0%
Any 2/4-year, first year after HS
9th graders on track
69.6%
Earned all attempted credits
College-level coursework
71.2%
AP / IB / Running Start / CTE
Regular attendance
62.5%
Missing fewer than 2 days/month

Directly from OSPI Report Card (graduation, postsecondary via ERDC, ninth-grade on track, dual credit, growth, attendance). Latest published year.

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
41.8%
English language learners
10.6%
Highly Capable program
20.7%
Enrollment
1,509
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
77
Avg years experience
10.8
MA-degree share
84.4%
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.

Competition and advanced-peer evidence

Aggregated from WHSCA, Washington Science Olympiad, The Blue Alliance, and the Seattle Times National Merit list. "Known counts" only — missing public evidence is not proof of absence.

Highly Capable / gifted pathway

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

Research dossier

Garfield High School: What The Data Says

Garfield High School is a high school in Seattle School District No. 1. The local dataset puts it at grade span 9-12 with enrollment of 1509. The headline academic number: 57.5% combined ELA/math meeting standard across the available three-year data, with 51.0% in the latest year.

The useful question is not just whether the scores are high. It is whether the school combines academics, access, peer depth, and day-to-day fit in a way that works for a specific child.

The Short Version

  • Local structured data: 57.5% combined ELA/math over available three-year data; 70.8% ELA and 44.1% math.
  • Access is the first filter: Attendance-area school. Home-address assignment for attendance-area schools; School Choice request for other SPS schools.
  • There is public evidence of advanced peer depth: Garfield Jazz 1 won eight awards at the 2023 Essentially Ellington competition, including Outstanding Trumpet and Trombone sections (Garfield PTSA: Essentially Ellington Awards).
  • The surrounding block group is High for kid density, about 7.7 estimated kids per typical block.

Researched 2026-06-09. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

That is the free excerpt. The full dossier continues with the complete evidence review: academic outcomes in context, advanced-peer depth, program and access analysis, culture signals, logistics, neighborhood context, open questions, and every citation.

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