I have one child in Elementary, one in middle school, and one in High school. At what location in Seattle would be the best place to live...near 3 different schools?
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I guess I'd back up and ask another question: Where do you want to live? I can't get an exact size of the metro area, but King County (Seattle and environs alone) is 2,307 square miles and there are two other close-in counties where people live (Snohomish
Bellevue has outstanding schools, including Bellevue High, Newport High, and the International School. The district is well-run and is highly regarded by educators around the region for its organization level. Bellevue is also very expensive to live in, and, being an upper-middle class suburb, has a culture which gets up some peoples' noses. :-)
Lake Washington School District also serves a very affluent population and has well-regarded schools.
Seattle proper is a big city, with big-city issues. There are some amazing schools in Seattle (including Garfield High School - a weird hybrid of a nosebleed high-achievement AP academic program grafted to a gritty inner-city school), Washington, Hamilton, and Eckstein middle schools,
If you can narrow down where you want to live, what your cost-of-living budget is like, and what sort of environment you want to be in, we can probably dial down a bit.
Good luck!
Bellevue has outstanding schools, including Bellevue High, Newport High, and the International School. The district is well-run and is highly regarded by educators around the region for its organization level. Bellevue is also very expensive to live in, and, being an upper-middle class suburb, has a culture which gets up some peoples' noses. :-)
Lake Washington School District also serves a very affluent population and has well-regarded schools.
Seattle proper is a big city, with big-city issues. There are some amazing schools in Seattle (including Garfield High School - a weird hybrid of a nosebleed high-achievement AP academic program grafted to a gritty inner-city school), Washington, Hamilton, and Eckstein middle schools,
If you can narrow down where you want to live, what your cost-of-living budget is like, and what sort of environment you want to be in, we can probably dial down a bit.
Good luck!
Unfortunately, Greatschools is a nationwide forum, and the chance of finding another family from a particular town with kids of similar ages is slim. Have you tried using the "Find a School" feature on the green menu bar near the top of this page? You enter a location and grade level, and can see a list of all schools in a given area. Public ones are rated from 1 (low) to 10 (high).
My personal opinion is to start at the top and work backwards... if you find a highly rated high school, chances are it's being fed by good middle schools, and good middle schools probably get students from good elementary schools. :o)
My personal opinion is to start at the top and work backwards... if you find a highly rated high school, chances are it's being fed by good middle schools, and good middle schools probably get students from good elementary schools. :o)
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