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region at a glance
High Schools by the Numbers by Richard Greenough
The Big Guys |
(Data from fall 2002) |
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If you're looking for the largest high schools in the Northwest, you won't find them in the Seattle and Portland school districts. Metropolitan-area suburbs dominate the list of places with the biggest enrollments. |
| School | District | Enrollment |
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| Marysville Pilchuck High School | Marysville School District 25 (WA) | 2,691 |
| South Kitsap High School | South Kitsap School District 402 (WA) | 2,524 |
| Service High School | Anchorage School District (AK) | 2,454 |
| Reynolds High School | Reynolds School District 007 (OR) | 2,422 |
| David Douglas High School | David Douglas School District 40 (OR) | 2,411 |
| Eagle High School | Meridian Joint School District 2 (ID) | 2,409 |
| Auburn Senior High School | Auburn School District 408 (WA) | 2,376 |
| Pasco Senior High School | Pasco School District 001 (WA) | 2,361 |
| Westview High School | Beaverton School District 48j (OR) | 2,340 |
| Meridian High School | Meridian Joint School District 2 (ID) | 2,336 |
Facts You May Not Know | (Data from fall 2002) |
- More than a quarter of the schools in our region have grade 12 as the highest grade (1,501 out of 5,408 schools reporting enrollment)
- Of the 1,501 Northwest schools with grade 12 as the highest grade:
- 1,151 are regular schools
- 34 are special education schools
- 10 are vocational education schools
- 306 are other/alternative schools
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- Of the 1,151 regular schools with grade 12 as the highest grade:
- Nearly half are Title I schools
- One-third have free or reduced-lunch eligibility rates of more than 40 percent
- More than one in five are "majority minority" schools:
- 186 are majority American Indian/Alaska Native (all but eight of
- these are in rural areas of 2,500 population or less; seven of the remaining eight are in small towns and one is in Anchorage)
- 23 are majority Hispanic (20 of the 23 are in Central Washington)
- 2 are majority African American
- 30 have no single majority racial/ethnic group
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Northwest High Schools, by School Size |
(Data from fall 2001) |
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