Eastlake High School (Sammamish, Washington)

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Eastlake High School
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Eastlake High School (Sammamish, Washington)
400 228th Avenue Northeast

Sammamish
,
Washington

U.S.
Information
Type Public, four-year
MottoWolf Strong Pack Strong
Established1993
School district Lake Washington S.D.
PrincipalTodd Apple
Faculty107.40 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12 (10–12 until Sep 2012)
Enrollment2,151 (2019–20) [1]  (May 2019)
Student to teacher ratio20.03 [1]
CampusSmall Town
Color(s)Black, White and Crimson  
Athletics WIAA Class 4A
Athletics conference KingCo 4A,
Crown Division
Mascot Wolf
Rivals Skyline, Redmond, Eastside
NewspaperWolves Weekly Update
Feeder schoolsEvergreen Middle School
Inglewood Middle School
Timberline Middle School
Information425-936-1500
Website ehs.lwsd.org

Eastlake High School is a four-year public high school in Sammamish, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. Opened in 1993, it is one of four traditional high schools in the Lake Washington School District, serving its eastern portion.

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Eastlake shares its campus with the Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, located in portables.

Cafeteria, Eastlake High School, Sammamish, Washington Eastlake High School Sammamish Washington 14.jpg
Cafeteria, Eastlake High School, Sammamish, Washington

Eastlake is one of three high schools on the Sammamish Plateau, all close in proximity along 228th Avenue. Skyline High School, in the Issaquah School District, opened in 1997 and is about 1-mile (1.6 km) south of Eastlake. Between the two public high schools is Eastside Catholic, a private secondary school that relocated to Sammamish in 2008.

In the fall of 2012, Lake Washington School District converted its four senior high schools (grades 10–12) to four-year schools (grades 9–12), moving the freshman class for the first time from the Jr. High to the district's High School. In preparation for the expansion of Eastlake's student body, a new wing (E wing) and the gym was built during the summer of 2012. This shift of grades between schools subsequently also resulted in the moving of most 6th Grade classes from the Elementary schools to the now Middle Schools.

Academics

Eastlake offers honors and Advanced Placement (AP) academic programs to prepare students for upper-division and college-level courses. Foreign languages offered at Eastlake High School include Spanish, French, Japanese, and American Sign Language. [2]

Eastlake participates in the Running Start program. Eastlake students in the 11th or 12th grade can enroll in college-level courses at Bellevue College, CWU Sammamish, Cascadia College, or Lake Washington Institute of Technology and earn high school and college credit concurrently. The Lake Washington School District pays the college tuition for a specified number of credits taken; students are usually responsible for fees, books, and transportation. [3]

63% of 2005 graduates attended 4-year colleges and 23% attended 2-year colleges.[ citation needed ]

97.7% of seniors in the class of 2017 graduated.

Extracurricular

Athletics

Completed in January 2006, the school has a multi-purpose sports facility. It features two lighted synthetic surface fields operated by the city of Sammamish in cooperation with the school district. The 400-ft by 350-ft field accommodates baseball, softball, Frisbee, lacrosse, and soccer activities for adults and students year-round. [4]

Academics

Eastlake students received Presidential Scholar awards in 2003, 2008, and 2010. [5] [6]

Eastlake High School has a number of clubs and student organizations. [7] These include a number of honor societies such as Computer Science Honor Society, Physics Honor Society, National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, French Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society and Science National Honor Society, as well as career and technical organizations (CTSOs) like TSA, DECA and HOSA, whose chapters send a number of competitors to internationals every year. During the 2018-19 school year, 29 students competed at DECA's ICDC, while 25 students competed at HOSA's ILC. [8] In 2020, Eastlake High School students were elected to represent Washington state at TSA [9] and HOSA. [10]

Eastlake was the only school in the district to have a FIRST Robotics Competition robotics team (in 2016 a team at Lake Washington High School was founded). The team, formerly known as Top Gun and rebranded in 2020 as Pack of Parts (1294), started in 2004. It has won many runner-up awards at various regional events. They qualified for the first time to go to the World Championship in 2014. Again, they qualified and competed in the quarterfinals of the Newton division in 2017. [11]

Eastlake's Drama Club has been nominated and honorably mentioned for multiple 5th Avenue Awards. The Drama program has been mentioned in high honors for Outstanding Chorus two times in the span of three years. In 2018, the orchestra was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Orchestra by the 5th Avenue Theatre for Mary Poppins. [12] [ better source needed ]

Notable alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eastlake High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Eastlake Course Catalog 2019-2020" (PDF). Eastlake High School. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  3. ↑ "Eastlake High School: Running Start". Eastlake High School. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  4. ↑ "Community Sports Field at Eastlake High". Archived from the original on 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  5. ↑ "Eastlake High Senior Named Presidential Scholar - Lake Washington School District". Lwsd.org. 2008-05-06. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  6. ↑ "News | U.S. Department of Education". www.ed.gov. Archived from the original on May 9, 2009.
  7. ↑ "Eastlake Club List 2019-2020" (PDF). Eastlake High School. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  8. ↑ "Wolves Weekly Update Newsletter - Eastlake High School".
  9. ↑ "2 Eastlake Students elected as Washington TSA state officers".
  10. ↑ "Eastlake Student elected as a Washington HOSA state officer".
  11. ↑ "Team 1294 - Top Gun". The Blue Alliance. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
  12. ↑ "The 5th Avenue Theatre". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  13. ↑ "Staff Directory - Eastlake High School".

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