Summary:
Zip code 98006 includes six public schools serving elementary, middle, and high school students: three elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school, with approximately 5,357 students across the area. Five schools belong to the highly rated Bellevue School District, while Cougar Ridge Elementary is part of the highly rated Issaquah School District. Overall, the area offers a strong set of public-school options, although results vary considerably from one campus to another.
The strongest schools are Somerset Elementary School, Newport Senior High School, and Tyee Middle School. Somerset ranks third statewide among elementary schools and leads the area in math and science, with 93.33% and 91.91% of students proficient. Newport Senior ranks fifth among Washington high schools, reports 91.04% ELA proficiency, an 95.5% graduation rate, and a low 2.7% dropout rate. Tyee ranks seventh among middle schools and substantially outperforms Chinook Middle School in every subject, including a 24-point advantage in math. Cougar Ridge Elementary also ranks near the top statewide and had the area’s largest recent improvement, with science proficiency rising more than 10 percentage points.
Newport Heights Elementary offers solid results, especially in science, though it trails Somerset and Cougar Ridge overall. Chinook is the main performance concern: its results are below the Bellevue district averages in ELA, math, and science, despite still exceeding statewide results. Parents should also note that year-to-year changes were mixed, particularly in science, which improved sharply at Cougar Ridge but declined at several other schools. Reported spending and student-teacher ratios do not consistently predict achievement in this small group. Some Cougar Ridge third-grade results were suppressed by the state, so those figures are unknown rather than evidence of low performance.
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