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Enrollment
1,850
High
DISTRICT 1,068 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530039000078
Newport Senior High School
4333 Factoria Boulevard SE, Bellevue, WA 98006 · (425) 456-7400 · King County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,850 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Washington public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
295 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 416 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 496 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 471 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 467 | 25% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
87.0%
WA avg 58.4% . +78.5pp since 2014
Math
73.3%
WA avg 51.2% . +65.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 79 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 66 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 73.3% |
| 2023-24 | 81.6% | 74.0% |
| 2022-23 | 88.3% | 74.5% |
| 2021-22 | 87.8% | 73.0% |
| 2018-19 | 89.1% | 78.0% |
| 2017-18 | 87.9% | 81.3% |
| 2015-16 | 14.6% | 1.3% |
| 2014-15 | 8.5% | 7.8% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
74.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Newport Senior High School
Newport Senior High School's state test result (74.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Senior High School this school | 1,850 | 15.9% | 74.5% |
| North Creek High School Bothell | 1,910 | 20.1% | 65.3% |
| Interlake Senior High School Bellevue | 1,611 | 26.6% | 63.6% |
| Skyline High School SAMMAMISH | 2,244 | 8.9% | 74.2% |
| Bellevue High School Bellevue | 1,683 | 18.6% | 64.1% |
| Eastlake High School Sammamish | 2,481 | 5.7% | 57.4% |
Matched among Washington high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Newport Senior High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.5% | #4 of 271 | #3 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #3 of 321 ▼ 1 | #2 of 59 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #5 of 327 ▲ 23 | #3 of 61 ▲ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.2pp | #138 of 259 | #33 of 57 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,850 | #35 of 570 | #12 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.6:1 | #154 of 311 | #29 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.2% | #136 of 316 | #55 of 67 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.9% | #365 of 386 | #61 of 76 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.9% | #125 of 136 | #28 of 31 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,850
+84 (+5%) vs 2020
+52% since 1990-91, when it was 1,217
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
was 20.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,850 | 89.9 | 20.6:1 | 16% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 1,844 | 88.8 | 20.8:1 | 16% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 1,726 | 87.8 | 19.7:1 | 13% (232) |
| 2020-21 | 1,766 | 85 | 20.8:1 | 8% (149) |
| 2017-18 | 1,834 | 84.8 | 21.6:1 | 13% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 1,797 | 83 | 21.6:1 | 13% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 1,725 | 78 | 22.1:1 | 12% (212) |
| 2000-01 | 1,333 | 58 | 23.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,217 | 58 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Newport Senior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (1,834 to 1,850); teachers up 6% (84.8 to 89.9).
About Newport Senior High School
Newport Senior High School is a large high school with its address in Bellevue, Washington. The school's 1,850 students are in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 223% higher than the average for high schools in Washington, which is about 573.
Bellevue School District counts 30 schools and 20,339 students, including Newport Senior High School.
Asian students account for 61% of enrollment at Newport Senior High School. The remaining students are 19% White, 10% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Census figures show King County is about 21% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Newport Senior High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
At Newport Senior High School, 89.9 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 20.6:1. That ratio is under the 21.6:1 average for high schools in Washington. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 16% of enrollment. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in King County is 22 points.
allk12 grades Newport Senior High School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Washington public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Newport Senior High School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 74.5% is 5.0 points above the 69.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In King County (population about 2,287,171), median household income is about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 544 public schools operate in King County, serving about 278,492 students.
The school nearest to Newport Senior High School is Tyee Middle School, at a distance of about 0.8 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Newport Senior High School places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 1,766 to 1,850.
The Newport Senior High School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellevue School District
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
- Chinook Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
Other schools in Bellevue
- Bellevue High SchoolHigh · 1,683 students
- Interlake Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Sammamish Senior HighHigh · 1,363 students
- Tyee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,007 students
- Odle Middle SchoolMiddle · 974 students
- Chinook Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
Nearby schools
- Tyee Middle School0.8 mi · 1,007
- Newport Heights Elementary0.9 mi · 549
- Somerset Elementary School1.0 mi · 741
- Woodridge Elementary1.7 mi · 554
- Vera Risdon Middle School1.9 mi · 751
- Enatai Elementary School1.9 mi · 518
Frequently asked questions
About Newport Senior High SchoolHow large is Newport Senior High School?
Newport Senior High School enrolls approximately 1,850 students in grades 09-12.
Is Newport Senior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Newport Senior High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Newport Senior High School have?
Newport Senior High School employs 90 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Newport Senior High School?
Student demographics at Newport Senior High School are roughly 19% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 61% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Newport Senior High School in?
Newport Senior High School is part of Bellevue School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.