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Enrollment
1,565
High
DISTRICT 1,555 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHORELINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530792001315
Shorecrest High School
15343 25th Avenue N.E., Shoreline, WA 98155 · (206) 393-4286 · King County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,565 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of Washington public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
25.5:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.0:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
503 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 | 404 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 412 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 383 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 366 | 23% |
Student demographics
68%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
72.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +26.6pp since 2014
Math
46.4%
WA avg 51.2% . +18.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 27 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 18 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.9% | 46.4% |
| 2023-24 | 74.5% | 50.0% |
| 2022-23 | 69.1% | 47.4% |
| 2021-22 | 75.3% | 44.4% |
| 2018-19 | 82.8% | 53.8% |
| 2017-18 | 82.1% | 60.5% |
| 2016-17 | 15.4% | 20.4% |
| 2015-16 | 39.5% | 32.4% |
| 2014-15 | 46.3% | 28.1% |
% 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
62.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Shorecrest High School
Shorecrest High School's state test result (62.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorecrest High School this school | 1,565 | 32.1% | 62.4% |
| Ingraham High School SEATTLE | 1,391 | 31.1% | 52.0% |
| Shorewood High School Shoreline | 1,544 | 31.4% | 63.5% |
| Mountlake Terrace High School MTLK TERRACE | 1,456 | 36.3% | 41.8% |
| Curtis Senior High UNIVERSITY PLACE | 1,321 | 36.8% | 62.9% |
| Stadium High School Tacoma | 1,700 | 38.2% | 36.5% |
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 Shorecrest High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #24 of 271 | #14 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #47 of 321 ▼ 10 | #24 of 59 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #63 of 327 ▼ 9 | #26 of 61 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.2pp | #141 of 259 | #35 of 57 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,565 | #70 of 570 | #25 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.5:1 | #306 of 311 | #65 of 67 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.2% | #81 of 316 | #40 of 67 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.1% | #313 of 386 | #43 of 76 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.9% | #79 of 136 | #19 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
1,565
+70 (+5%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 1,301
Student : Teacher
25.5:1
was 24.5:1
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 | 1,565 | 61.3 | 25.5:1 | 32% (503) |
| 2023-24 | 1,527 | 59.9 | 25.5:1 | 34% (512) |
| 2022-23 | 1,507 | 60.4 | 24.9:1 | 32% (480) |
| 2020-21 | 1,495 | 61 | 24.5:1 | 26% (393) |
| 2017-18 | 1,450 | 63.6 | 22.8:1 | 27% (389) |
| 2015-16 | 1,338 | 60 | 22.3:1 | 26% (353) |
| 2010-11 | 1,405 | 67 | 21.0:1 | 24% (334) |
| 2000-01 | 1,611 | 79 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,301 | 62 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shorecrest High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (1,450 to 1,565); teachers down 4% (63.6 to 61.3).
About Shorecrest High School
As a high-enrollment high school, Shorecrest High School serves students in Shoreline, Washington. It reports enrollment of 1,565 students in grades 9 through 12. The school is 173% above the average for high schools in Washington.
Shoreline School District is responsible for 18 schools, Shorecrest High School included, with 9,717 students in all.
The student body at Shorecrest High School has no majority group. White students lead at 50%. Next come 17% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 11% Asian, and 10% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 68, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Shorecrest High School, there are about 25.5 students; the school has 61.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 21.6:1 average for high schools in Washington, this school's ratio is higher. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 32%.
Shorecrest High School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 91% of Washington public high schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Shorecrest High School is +3.8 points: 62.4% actual, 58.6% predicted.
For the population of King County, median household income comes to about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. King County's 544 public schools enroll about 278,492 students and include Shorecrest High School.
Shorecrest High School's nearest public school is Fircrest Residential Habilitation (about 0.3 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Shorecrest High School is 5th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal data place Shorecrest High School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment rose 5% over 4 years, reaching 1,565 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 24.5:1 in 2020-21, and 25.5:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Shoreline School District
- Shorewood High SchoolHigh · 1,544 students
- Albert Einstein Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,032 students
- Kellogg Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 589 students
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
- Melvin G Syre ElementaryElementary · 444 students
Other schools in Shoreline
- Shorewood High SchoolHigh · 1,544 students
- Albert Einstein Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,032 students
- Kellogg Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Meridian Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 589 students
- Briarcrest ElementaryElementary · 454 students
- Melvin G Syre ElementaryElementary · 444 students
Nearby schools
- Fircrest Residential Habilitation0.3 mi · 1
- Briarcrest Elementary0.3 mi · 454
- Kellogg Middle School0.4 mi · 991
- Ridgecrest Elementary0.8 mi · 424
- Brookside Elementary1.2 mi · 372
- Olympic Hills Elementary School1.2 mi · 486
Frequently asked questions
About Shorecrest High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Shorecrest High School?
Shorecrest High School enrolls approximately 1,565 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Shorecrest High School serve?
Shorecrest High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Shorecrest High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Shorecrest High School is approximately 25.5:1 (61 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Shorecrest High School?
Student demographics at Shorecrest High School are roughly 50% White, 17% Hispanic, 10% Black, 11% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Shorecrest High School in?
Shorecrest High School is part of Shoreline School District.
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