4400 Interlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103-7519
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 9–12 · 1,780 students · attendance-area high school in Wallingford, and the endpoint of the district's dual-language immersion pathway
Seattle parents tend to talk about Lincoln as the district's new flagship, the 1907 building that reopened in 2019 and immediately started posting numbers rivaling anything in the city. The data mostly backs the chatter, but the mechanism matters. Lincoln's boundary happens to capture the highest concentration of Highly Capable students of any Seattle Public Schools comprehensive high school: 40.6% of the student body carries the designation (state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) data, 2024-25). Advanced pacing is therefore the building's default setting rather than a program you sign up for. The results include 13 National Merit Semifinalists in 2026, a 95.9% four-year graduation rate, and top-decile English language arts outcomes against demographically similar schools.
The fine print cuts two directions. Lincoln's own climate survey shows its highest-achieving students are the _least_ satisfied with college-readiness support, a hint that counseling capacity hasn't scaled to the cohort's ambitions, and the student newspaper describes the grade culture in bluntly critical terms. A family whose child would arrive outside the Highly Capable pipeline should weigh a different question: whether a school where four in ten peers are formally identified as advanced feels like a rising tide or a treadmill.
Researched 2026-06-27. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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