Interlake High School

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Interlake High School
Address
Interlake High School
16245 Northeast 24th Street

Bellevue
,
Washington
98008

United States
Coordinates 47°37′44″N122°07′26″W / 47.629°N 122.124°W / 47.629; -122.124
Information
Type Public high school
MottoIntegrity, Humanity, Scholarship
Established1967;57 years ago (1967)
School district Bellevue S.D.
CEEB code 480069
PrincipalBret Cochrun [1]
Teaching staff84.77 (FTE) [2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,543 (2022–2023) [2]
Student to teacher ratio18.20 [2]
Color(s)    Navy blue,
Columbia blue, White
Mascot Saint Bernard
Nickname Saints
Newspaper The Interlake Inquirer
Website School website
2017 Interlake High School w 50 yr banner.jpg
IHS main entrance in 2017,
with 50th anniversary banner

Interlake High School (IHS) is a public secondary school in Bellevue, Washington, one of the four traditional high schools in the Bellevue School District. Its mascot is a Saint Bernard named Bernie, and the school's sports teams are known as the "Saints."

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History

Interlake High School opened in 1968. [3] In 1997, Interlake began offering the International Baccalaureate program. [4]

In 2003, most of the school was torn to the ground and rebuilt while its students continued to attend class in portables. The new building opened at the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year. [5]

Students

Clubs and Activities

Interlake High School hosts multiple clubs, which include co-ed sports clubs such as the Badminton Club and the Ping-Pong club, which won state in its first year. A variety of STEM clubs also exist, including clubs such as an Aviation Club, a Robotics Club, a Programming and Computer Vision club, Game Development, Rocketry Club, Coding for Medicine Club, Science Club, Research Club, and Math Club. Other clubs include National Honor Society,Speech and Debate, Junior State of America, DECA, History Club, Key Club, a Model United Nations club, HOSA, newspaper club known as the Interlake Inquirer, a Stocks club and Taichi club and Spirit Squads like Cheer and Drill. [6]

AL Program

The AL program at Interlake is part of the Advance Placement program offered in the Bellevue School District for grades 2 through 12. [7] [ needs update ]

The AL program is a selective program; in which applicants must have a minimum score of 144 on the Cognitive Abilities Test. Reading and Quantitative scores must be of the 90th percentile or higher, one of which must be at or above the 97th percentile. Students who usually partake in the AL Program usually graduate from the middle school AL Program offered in two Bellevue School District schools; Odle Middle School and Tyee Middle School. The high school AL program continued from the middle school AL Program extends the science, English, and social studies classes further in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. [8] In the IB program, AL students complete the IB diploma during 10th and 11th grade, rather than the usual 11th and 12th grade.

Notable alumni

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