Eastlake High School (Sammamish, Washington)

Eastlake High School
Main entrance in 2005
Location
400 228th Avenue Northeast
Sammamish, Washington
U.S.
Information
Type Public, four-year
Motto Wolf Strong Pack Strong
Established 1993
School district Lake Washington S.D.
Principal Chris Bede
Faculty approx. 70[1]
Grades 9–12 (10-12 until Sep 2012)
Enrollment 1,875[2] (May 2016)
Campus Small Town
Color(s) Black, White and Crimson     
Athletics WIAA Class 4A
Athletics conference KingCo 4A,
Crown Division
Mascot Wolf
Rivals Skyline, Redmond, Eastside
Newspaper Eastlake Edge (bi-monthly) Not Active
Feeder schools Evergreen Middle School
Inglewood Middle School
Information 425-936-1500
Website ehs.lwsd.org

Eastlake High School is a four-year public high school in Sammamish, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. Opened in 1993, it is one of four traditional high schools in the Lake Washington School District, serving its eastern portion.

Eastlake shares its campus with the Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, located in portables.

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Cafeteria, Eastlake High School, Sammamish, Washington

Eastlake is one of three high schools on the Sammamish Plateau, all close in proximity along 228th Avenue. Skyline High School, in the Issaquah School District, opened in 1997 and is about 1-mile (1.6 km) south of Eastlake. Between the two public high schools is Eastside Catholic, a private secondary school which relocated to Sammamish in 2008.

In the fall of 2012, Lake Washington School District converted its four senior high schools (grades 10–12) to four-year schools (grades 9–12), moving the freshman class for the first time from the Jr. High to the district's High School. In preparation for the expansion of Eastlake's student body, a new wing (E wing) and gym was built during the summer of 2012. This shift of grades between schools subsequently also resulted in the moving of most 6th Grade classes from the Elementary schools to the now Middle Schools.

Academics

Eastlake offers academic programs to prepare students for upper division and college level courses.

63% of 2005 graduates attended 4-year colleges and 23% attended 2-year colleges.

Foreign languages offered at Eastlake High School include Spanish, French, Japanese, and American Sign Language.

Extracurricular

Athletics

EHS is well known for its dominant football program. They share tradition in sports with Skyline High School and play for one of the most popular rivalry games in the state, the "Battle on the Plateau." They also pride themselves for having a devoted and large fan-base that is considered one of the best in the state. Eastlake High School competes in athletics in WIAA Class 4A in the KingCo 4A conference, and has won many regional and state championships.

Completed in January 2006, the school has a multi-purpose sports facility. It features two lighted synthetic surface fields operated by the city of Sammamish in cooperation with the school district. The 400-ft by 350-ft field accommodates baseball, softball, Frisbee, lacrosse, and soccer activities for adults and students year-round.[3]

Non-athletics

Students at Eastlake have earned a number of awards for activities not related to athletics. Eastlake students received Presidential Scholar awards in 2003, 2008, and 2010.[4][5]

Eastlake High School has a number of clubs and student organizations, including honor societies such as National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, and Science National Honor Society, career and technical organizations (CTSOs) like DECA, HOSA, and TSA, a Speech and Debate team, and a Model UN club.[6]

Eastlake was the only school in the district to have its own FIRST Robotics Competition robotics team (in 2016 a team at Lake Washington High School was founded). The team, officially known as Top Gun (1294), was started in 2004 and has won many runner up awards at various regional events. In their 2014 season, they qualified for the first time to go to the World Championship. They qualified again and competed to the quarterfinals of the Newton division in their 2017 season.[7]

Eastlake's Drama Club has also become increasingly notable ran under Director Kate Wold, they have been nominated and honorably mentioned for multiple 5th Avenue Awards. Including Lauren Drake being nominated for Outstanding Performance by A Supporting Actress for playing Sally in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. The Drama Program has been honorably mentioned for Outstanding Chorus two times out of the past three years. This past year, the orchestra was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Orchestra for Mary Poppins, led by Music Director Chelsee Moe.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ http://www.lkwash.wednet.edu/lwsd/html/schools/findDetail.asp?schoolTypeKey=high
  2. ↑ "Washington State Report Card - Eastlake High School". Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  3. ↑ "Community Sports Field at Eastlake High".
  4. ↑ "Eastlake High Senior Named Presidential Scholar - Lake Washington School District". Lwsd.org. 2008-05-06. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  5. ↑ Archived May 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ https://ehs.lwsd.org/activities/clubs
  7. ↑ "Team 1294 - Top Gun". The Blue Alliance. Retrieved 2017-08-24.

Coordinates: 47°36′49″N 122°01′52″W / 47.61361°N 122.03111°W / 47.61361; -122.03111

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