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Issaquah High School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 74 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 63 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 69% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Issaquah High School
Located at 700 2ND AVE SE, in ISSAQUAH, Washington, Issaquah High School is an expansive high school that caters to 2,419 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Issaquah School District. That puts it 322% above the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.
Issaquah School District comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 19,098 students; Issaquah High School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Issaquah High School records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 21.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Issaquah High School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 69.1%; Issaquah High School posts 54.1%, -15.0 points below that line.
In the area at large, King County reports that median household income runs about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Issaquah High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Issaquah Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Issaquah High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.7%.
Issaquah High School operates from a rural location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Issaquah High School has showed little movement, going from 2,377 students in 2018 to 2,419 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 59% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.
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