Eastlake High School (Sammamish, Washington)

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 High School
Main entrance in 2005
Location
400 228th Avenue Northeast

Sammamish
,
Washington

U.S.
Information
TypePublic, four-year
MottoWolf Strong Pack Strong
Established1993
School districtLake Washington S.D.
PrincipalChris Bede
Facultyapprox. 70[1]
Grades9–12 (10-12 until Sep 2012)
EnrollmentAbout 2,500[2] (May 2019)
CampusSmall Town
Color(s)Black, White and Crimson     
AthleticsWIAA Class 4A
Athletics conferenceKingCo 4A,
Crown Division
MascotWolf
RivalsSkyline, Redmond, Eastside
NewspaperWolf Street Journal
Feeder schoolsEvergreen Middle School
Inglewood Middle School
Information425-936-1500
Websiteehs.lwsd.org

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

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 honors and Advanced Placement (AP) academic programs to prepare students for upper division and college level courses. Foreign languages offered at Eastlake High School include Spanish, French, Japanese, and American Sign Language.[3]

Eastlake participates in the Running Start program. Eastlake students in the 11th or 12th grade can enroll in college level courses at Bellevue College, CWU Sammamish, Cascadia College, or Lake Washington Institute of Technology and earn high school and college credit concurrently. The Lake Washington School District pays the college tuition for a specified number of credits taken; students are usually responsible for fees, books, and transportation.[4]

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

97.7% of seniors in the class of 2017 graduated.

Extracurricular

Athletics

EHS is well known for its decent 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.[5]

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.[6][7]

Eastlake High School has a number of clubs and student organizations.[8] These include a number of honor societies such as Physics Honor Society, National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, French Honor Society, and Science National Honor Society, as well as career and technical organizations (CTSOs) like DECA and HOSA, whose chapters send a number of competitors to internationals every year. In the 2018-19 school year, 29 students competed at DECA's ICDC, while 25 students competed at HOSA's ILC.[9]

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.[10]

Eastlake's Drama Club has become increasingly notable under Director Kate Wold, being nominated and honorably mentioned for multiple 5th Avenue Awards. The Drama Program has been honorably mentioned for Outstanding Chorus two times in a span of three years. In 2018, the orchestra was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Orchestra for Mary Poppins, led by Music Director Chelsee Moe.

Notable alumni
  • Curtis Borchardt, professional basketball player
  • Nick Downing, retired professional soccer player
  • Blake Hawksworth, professional baseball player
  • Chad Orvella, former MLB player (Tampa Bay Rays)
  • Ryan Lewis (American football) , professional football player
  • Nick Fascitelli, television sitcom writer
  • Marcus Ungaro, NFL Madden Xbox Champion. Super Bowl Champion - New Orleans Saints.
  • Steve Dougan, All-State Winter-Slam Champion 2014-2018
  • Bryan Yates, collegiate baseball player, Clemson University
  • Michael Slaughter, Amateur Golfer
  • Marcus Parks Professional Race Car Driver for Honda Motors.
  • Chase Griffin, Pepperdine University Basketball


In addition, Rian Lindell, former Seattle Seahawks kicker, is currently a physical education teacher.[11]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2001-11-10. Retrieved 2007-08-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Washington State Report Card - Eastlake High School". Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  3. "Eastlake Course Catalog 2019-2020" (PDF). Eastlake High School. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  4. "Eastlake High School: Running Start". Eastlake High School. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  5. "Community Sports Field at Eastlake High". Archived from the original on 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  6. "Eastlake High Senior Named Presidential Scholar - Lake Washington School District". Lwsd.org. 2008-05-06. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  7. Archived May 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Eastlake Club List 2019-2020" (PDF). Eastlake High School. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  9. https://ehs.lwsd.org/quicklinks/wolves-weekly-update-newsletter
  10. "Team 1294 - Top Gun". The Blue Alliance. Retrieved 2017-08-24.

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