Eastlake High School (Sammamish, Washington)
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{{Infobox school
| name = Eastlake High School
| image = Eastlake High School Sammamish Washington 01.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Main entrance in 2005
| motto = Wolf Strong Pack Strong
| location = 400 228th Avenue Northeast
| city = Sammamish
| state = Washington
| country = U.S.
| type = Public, four-year
| established = 1993
| district = Lake Washington S.D.
| principal = Todd Apple
| teaching_staff = 111.32 {{FTE}}
| grades = 9–12 (10–12 until Sep 2012)
| enrollment = 2,367 (2023–2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=5304230&ID=530423001141|title=Eastlake High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=January 12, 2025}}
| conference = KingCo 4A,
Crown Division
| mascot = Wolf
| newspaper = Wolves Weekly Update
| yearbook =
| information =
| website = [https://ehs.lwsd.org ehs.lwsd.org]
| campus = Small Town
| campus size =
| colors = Crimson, gray and white
{{color box|#DC143C}} {{color box|gray}} {{color box|white}} {{Cite web|title=Eastlake High School|url=https://wiaa.finalforms.com/state_schools/107498|access-date=2024-04-27|website=Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association|language=en-US}}
| rivals =
| feeders = Evergreen Middle School
Inglewood Middle School
Timberline Middle School
}}
Eastlake High School is a four-year public high school in Sammamish, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. It shares its campus with the Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning.{{Cite web |title=Transportation - Renaissance Middle School |url=https://rsar.lwsd.org/about-us/transportation |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=rsar.lwsd.org |language=en-US}}File:Eastlake High School Sammamish Washington 14.jpg]]
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 {{convert|adj=on|1|mi}} south of Eastlake. Between the two public high schools is Eastside Catholic, a private secondary school that 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.{{Cite web |last=Stevens Decker |first=Mary |date=2010-09-28 |title=Population growth, school district reconfiguration to cause overcrowding in middle schools, high schools |url=https://www.redmond-reporter.com/news/population-growth-school-district-reconfiguration-to-cause-overcrowding-in-middle-schools-high-schools/ |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=Redmond Reporter |language=en-US}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://ehs.lwsd.org/uploaded/Eastlake_High_school/Documents/Course_Registration/EHS_course_catalog_2019-20-final_6.18.pdf|title=Eastlake Course Catalog 2019-2020 |publisher=Eastlake High School|access-date=2019-11-10 }}
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.{{cite web|url=https://ehs.lwsd.org/counseling/running-start|title=Eastlake High School: Running Start |publisher=Eastlake High School|access-date=2019-11-10 }}
Extracurricular
=Athletics=
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.sammamish.us/departments/parksandrec/EHSField.aspx|title=Community Sports Field at Eastlake High|access-date=2014-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013180157/http://www.sammamish.us/departments/parksandrec/EHSField.aspx|archive-date=2014-10-13|url-status=dead}}
=Academics=
Eastlake students received Presidential Scholar awards in 2003, 2008, and 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.lwsd.org/news/News-and-Announcements/Pages/Eastlake-High-Senior-Named-Presidential-Scholar.aspx |title=Eastlake High Senior Named Presidential Scholar - Lake Washington School District |publisher=Lwsd.org |date=2008-05-06 |access-date=2014-01-13}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/05/05072003.html |title= News | U.S. Department of Education|website=www.ed.gov |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509052933/http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/05/05072003.html |archive-date=May 9, 2009}}
Eastlake High School has a number of clubs and student organizations.{{cite web|url=https://ehs.lwsd.org/uploaded/Eastlake_High_school/Documents/Clubs/EHS_Club_detail_list_2019-2020_11.14.19.pdf|title=Eastlake Club List 2019-2020 |publisher=Eastlake High School|access-date=2019-11-10 }} These include a number of honor societies such as Computer Science Honor Society, Physics Honor Society, National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, French Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society and Science National Honor Society, as well as career and technical organizations (CTSOs) like TSA, DECA and HOSA, whose chapters send a number of competitors to internationals every year. During the 2018-19 school year, 29 students competed at DECA's ICDC, while 25 students competed at HOSA's ILC.{{cite web | url=https://ehs.lwsd.org/quicklinks/wolves-weekly-update-newsletter | title=Wolves Weekly Update Newsletter - Eastlake High School }} In 2020, Eastlake High School students were elected to represent Washington state at TSA{{cite web|title=2 Eastlake Students elected as Washington TSA state officers|url=https://www.washingtontsa.org/state-officers}} and HOSA.{{cite web|title=Eastlake Student elected as a Washington HOSA state officer|url=https://www.wahosa.org/student-leadership-executive-council.html}}
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. Again, they qualified and competed in the quarterfinals of the Newton division in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1294/2017|title=Team 1294 - Top Gun|website=The Blue Alliance|date=3 March 2017 |access-date=2017-08-24}}
In 2018, the orchestra was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Orchestra by the 5th Avenue Theatre for Mary Poppins.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-10 |title=They're creepy and they're kooky – JHS drama receives two 5th Avenue Awards nominations and three honorable mentions for "The Addams Family" |url=https://www.lwsd.org/programs-and-services/communications/news/news-details/~board/high-schools/post/theyre-creepy-and-theyre-kooky-jhs-drama-receives-two-5th-avenue-awards-nominations-and-three-honorable-mentions-for-the-addams-family |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=www.lwsd.org |language=en-US}}
Notable alumni
- Curtis Borchardt, professional basketball player{{Cite web |last=Fuller |first=Tom |date=March 2, 1999 |title=All-Kingco 4A Conference Basketball Teams -- Borchardt, Wilson Are Mvp Slam Dunks -- Kingco 4A's Top Players Are Unanimous Selections {{!}} The Seattle Times |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19990302&slug=2947022 |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=archive.seattletimes.com}}
- Nick Downing, retired professional soccer player{{Cite web |last=Glass |first=Gregg |date=April 8, 2003 |title=School spotlight: Eastlake High School {{!}} The Seattle Times |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030408&slug=eastspotlight08 |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=archive.seattletimes.com}}
- Blake Hawksworth, professional baseball player{{Cite web |last=Stone |first=Larry |date=2010-02-28 |title=Eastlake High grad Blake Hawksworth building his major-league career |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/eastlake-high-grad-blake-hawksworth-building-his-major-league-career/ |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}
- Chad Orvella, former MLB player (Tampa Bay Rays){{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2005-06-05 |title=Chad Orvella's long and winding road to the majors |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/chad-orvellas-long-and-winding-road-to-the-majors/ |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}
- Ryan Lewis, professional football player{{Cite web |last=McNamara |first=Neal |date=2017-03-24 |title=Pursuing NFL Career, Sammamish's Ryan Lewis Draws Attention Of New England Patriots |url=https://patch.com/washington/sammamish/pursuit-nfl-career-sammamish-local-draws-attention-new-england-patriots |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=Patch |language=en}}
- Rian Lindell, former NFL kicker, is a physical education teacher and football coach in Eastlake.{{Cite web |title=Staff Directory - Eastlake High School |url=https://ehs.lwsd.org/about-us/staff-directory-new}}
- Surf Mesa, singer Powell Aguirre{{Cite web |last=Wafai |first=Yasmeen |date=2021-04-05 |title=How Surf Mesa, a 20-year-old music producer from Sammamish, created a viral hit |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/how-surf-mesa-a-20-year-old-music-producer-from-sammamish-created-a-viral-hit/ |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}
- Marin Morrison, an American para-swimmer who competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing{{Cite web |last=Krishnan |first=Sonia |date=2007-03-31 |title=The unsinkable Marin Morrison |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-unsinkable-marin-morrison/ |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}
References
External links
- [http://ehs.lwsd.org Official website]
{{WIAA Sea-King District 2|A|4A}}
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Category:High schools in King County, Washington
Category:Schools in Sammamish, Washington
Category:Public high schools in Washington (state)