Evergreen High School

Evergreen High School operates as a substantial secondary school in Seattle, Washington, overseen by Highline School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,080 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 88% larger than typical.

Highline School District comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 18,072 students; Evergreen High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Evergreen High School logs that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 21% Asian, 13% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Evergreen High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.9%; this one comes in at 17.8%, -12.1 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for King County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Evergreen High School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cascade Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Evergreen High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Evergreen High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Evergreen High School has rose 8%, going from 1,001 students in 2018 to 1,080 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 43% to 50%. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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