Shorecrest High School

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Shorecrest High School
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Main entrance in 2015
Address
Shorecrest High School
15343 25th Avenue NE

Shoreline
,
Washington
98155

United States
Coordinates 47°44′28″N122°18′14″W / 47.741108°N 122.303926°W / 47.741108; -122.303926
Information
Type Public
MottoSeeing far... Working close... Creating choices...
Building excellence... We are Shorecrest
Established1961
Teaching staff60.43 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment1,507 (2022–2023) [1]
Student to teacher ratio24.94 [1]
Color(s)    Navy Blue, Forest Green, Gold
MascotOtis, the Fighting Scot
Nickname Highlanders
NewspaperThe Highland Piper
YearbookThe Loch
Website www.shorelineschools.org/shorecrest OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Shorecrest High School is a public high school (grades 9 through 12) in Shoreline, Washington, United States, one of two high schools in the Shoreline School District. Shorecrest was founded in 1961. Its mascot is Otis the Fighting Scot and students refer to themselves as "Scots", or the "Highlanders", a reference to the Clan Gordon.

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The high school's 42-acre (17 ha) campus was originally on land leased from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources until the Shoreline School District bought it outright in 1985. [3] Shorecrest moved to a new building on the campus over two phases in 2012 and 2014 that cost $94 million to construct. The new buildings include a three-story academic building with a commons area and library, a separate gymnasium and athletic complex, and a performing arts center with a 450-seat theater. [4]

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 1,450 students enrolled for the 2017–2018 school year was:

In addition, 26.8% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch. [2]

Student media

Notable alumni

Arts and entertainment

Athletes

Business

Government, law, social activism

Athletics

The following is a listing of the sports offered at Shorecrest and the state tournament championships won.

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  4. ↑ "Shorecrest project built around old high school" . Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce . February 27, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Actor Rainn Wilson spent a formative year at the UW".
  6. ↑ "Shoreline Concert Band and Shoreline faculty Jeff Kashiwa in concert Tues., Dec. 1 – Shoreline Today".
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