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Fall 2004 / Volume 10, Number 1.
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region at a glance

High Schools by the Numbers by Richard Greenough

The Big Guys

 (Data from fall 2002)
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.
SchoolDistrictEnrollment
Marysville Pilchuck High SchoolMarysville School District 25 (WA)2,691
South Kitsap High SchoolSouth Kitsap School District 402 (WA)2,524
Service High SchoolAnchorage School District (AK)2,454
Reynolds High SchoolReynolds School District 007 (OR)2,422
David Douglas High SchoolDavid Douglas School District 40 (OR)2,411
Eagle High SchoolMeridian Joint School District 2 (ID)2,409
Auburn Senior High SchoolAuburn School District 408 (WA)2,376
Pasco Senior High SchoolPasco School District 001 (WA)2,361
Westview High SchoolBeaverton School District 48j (OR)2,340
Meridian High SchoolMeridian 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
  • 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

Northwest High Schools, by School Size

 (Data from fall 2001)
Number of schools by Number of students

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