Puget Sound Skills Center

Puget Sound Skills Center is a 9-12 campus of tiny scale in Seattle, Washington, overseen by Highline School District, hosting 3 students in grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so Puget Sound Skills Center sits 99% below that benchmark.

Puget Sound Skills Center is one of 36 schools operated by Highline School District, a district that hosts 18,072 students overall.

On demographics, Puget Sound Skills Center records that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 33% Hispanic. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 0.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Puget Sound Skills Center tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (King County) reports that median household income runs about $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. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Puget Sound Skills Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Highline Home School Center, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Puget Sound Skills Center.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

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