1610 N 41st St, Seattle, WA 98103-8212
Directly from OSPI Report Card (graduation, postsecondary via ERDC, ninth-grade on track, dual credit, growth, attendance). Latest published year.
Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.
We haven't mapped this district's official feeder chart yet, so these are the closest schools of the next level by straight-line distance, not your assigned or guaranteed schools. Your address decides the assignment. See the districts with full pathways mapped.
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.
Hybrid model adopted March 2025 preserves the HCC self-contained cohort pathway alongside neighborhood-based HC services through at least 2027-28. Beginning 2026-27 the district adds two new HC elementary sites (Alki and Rainier View) and pilots single-domain identification (reading-only or math-only). Beginning January 2026 universal screening auto-includes all 1st and 4th graders; grades 2-3 and 5-8 require parent/educator referral. The 2027-28 horizon is a watch date because the original HCC sunset has only been paused, not cancelled.
Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.
Seattle Public Schools · grades 6–8 · 989 students · Wallingford attendance-area school hosting the Northwest dual-language continuation and a Highly Capable pathway cohort
Hamilton is where three of Seattle's most sought-after school tracks converge in one 1927 landmark building. The dual-language immersion pathway rolls up from John Stanford and McDonald International elementaries, the Highly Capable pathway brings nearly a third of the student body with the Highly Capable label, and the rest is a plain Wallingford neighborhood assignment. What surprises most families is what Hamilton does with all that tracking: it dissolves it. Language arts, social studies, and science are taught in deliberately mixed classrooms. Math is the only subject where placement rules bite, and they bite hard. A Highly Capable fifth grader from Cascadia walks into Math 8 as a sixth grader, two years ahead, and nobody else can test in or skip beyond a compacted Math 7/8 option.
So the honest pitch is peer density rather than program walls: your child sits beside one of the region's deepest concentrations of advanced middle schoolers, in a school whose defining institution is actually its music program. More than 600 kids play or sing in daily ensembles, kept solvent by a parent nonprofit because the district covers under 30% of the cost. Families expecting a self-contained gifted classroom, or counting on science (the one clearly declining line in the data), should read the fine print below.
Researched 2026-06-09. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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