Sammamish Senior High

Sammamish Senior High is a high school of well-populated scale in Bellevue, Washington, overseen by Bellevue School District, hosting 1,363 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 138% bigger than typical.

Bellevue School District comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 20,339 students; Sammamish Senior High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sammamish Senior High logs that the largest single group is White at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 11% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sammamish Senior High has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. The state averages about 21.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Sammamish Senior High is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.2%; Sammamish Senior High posts 37.1%, -14.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, King County reports that median household income runs about $124,746, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sammamish Senior High is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Odle Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sammamish Senior High. On composite proficiency, Sammamish Senior High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Sammamish Senior High's enrollment has climbed 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,105 (now 1,363). Over the same period, the White share declined from 46% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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