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The Polytech → The Northwest School → Fusion Academy Seattle → O'Dea High School → Seattle Academy Of Arts And Sciences → Cascade Parent Partnership Program → Seattle World School → Interagency Detention School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 5 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 3 physics
- 🎓 AP rigor: 64th percentile nationally
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How The Center School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 64th percentile nationally with 5 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyWA sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: The Polytech, The Northwest School, Fusion Academy Seattle and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
64th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
📊 State assessment · WA Smarter Balanced · grade 10
SBAC grade 10 — met or exceeded standard
School year 2024-25. Levels 3 + 4 combined ("at or above grade level"). Cells suppressed by the state when sample is small.
Source: WA state DOE Smarter Balanced results. Levels 1–2 = below standard, 3 = met, 4 = exceeded. Headline = level 3 + level 4 combined.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -14.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 165 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Polytech Seattle |
Private | 1.0 | 6 | — |
| The Northwest School Seattle |
Private | 1.3 | 453 | -10.5% |
| Fusion Academy Seattle Seattle |
Private | 1.4 | 54 | — |
| O'Dea High School Seattle |
Private | 1.6 | 500 | +2.0% |
| Seattle Academy Of Arts And Sciences Seattle |
Private | 1.7 | 1,081 | +15.5% |
| Cascade Parent Partnership Program SEATTLE |
Public | 1.7 | 139 | +12.1% |
| Seattle World School SEATTLE |
Public | 2.0 | 218 | +2.3% |
| Interagency Detention School SEATTLE |
Public | 2.0 | 40 | — |