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As of 2020 it is the second-largest school district in Washington. It serves the region to the east of Lake Washington, one of the wealthiest in the Puget Sound area, [2] though some parts of the area are well under the poverty line. [3] In October 2021, the district had a student enrollment of 30,500. [4]
In February 2011, facing substantial sustained and projected future enrollment growth, the Lake Washington School District issued a levy measure to raise $65,400,000 in property taxes [3] from King County residents to fund the construction of expanded facilities at Redmond High School and Eastlake High School as well as the construction of the new STEM High School.
This is a complete list of school districts of in the state of Washington. School districts are classified as whether they operate high school or not. Additionally the state classifies them on they have at least 2,000 students, with the former being first class districts and the latter being second class districts. Joint school districts have territory in at least two counties. All school ...
International Community School (ICS) is a small 6-12th grade public school in the Lake Washington School District of Washington State. It has about 60 students per grade with the exception of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th, which have an average of 40 students per grade. It is part of a series of schools founded by Dr. Bruce Saari.
Lake Washington's team name was the "Hornets" until 1935, when the class of that year decided to change the mascot to the Kangaroos. [9] The students at the time wrote a jingle involving a "rude phrase" referred to as the "horny hornets" and were punished by the district by having to choose a new mascot.
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. They qualified for the first time to go to the World Championship in 2014.
Opened in 1964, Redmond High School is the second oldest high school in the Lake Washington School District. [ 8 ] Redmond High School sits atop Education Hill in Redmond , in an updated building which opened in 2003 with a two-story structure [ 9 ] that features many environmentally friendly energy alternatives such as a large photovoltaic ...
In 1991 LWTech became independent of the school district and on September 1, 1991 the institute became a degree-granting technical college with all the rights and responsibilities of a technical college as prescribed by state law. The school dental program was initiated in the fall of 1996, the state's first new program in 22 years. [6]