Seattle Public Schools is the school district for the city of Seattle, Washington. It is the largest public school system in Washington, and the 44th largest in the United States, with 47,449 students in 2002.

There are 62 elementary schools, 11 middle schools, 16 high schools, one K-12 school, and eight K-8 schools in the district. The high schools are:

• Ballard High School , Ballard
• The Center School, Seattle Center
• Chief Sealth High School, West Seattle
• Cleveland High School, Beacon Hill
• Franklin High School, Mount Baker -- notable alumni: Kenny G, George H. Hitchings
• Garfield High School, Central District -- notable alumni: Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson , and Minoru Yamasaki
• Ingraham High School, Haller Lake Notable alumni: Jay Inslee, David Horsey
• John Marshall High School, Green Lake
• Middle College High School, Northgate and the campuses of North and South Seattle Community Colleges
• Nathan Hale High School, Lake City
• The Nova Project, Central District
• Rainier Beach High School, Rainier Beach
• Roosevelt High School, Roosevelt -- notable alumnae: Betty MacDonald, Rose McGowan
• Seattle Evening School at John Marshall (see John Marshall High School above)
• South Lake High School, Rainier Beach
• West Seattle High School, West Seattle -- notable alumna: Frances Farmer
• Shorecrest High School

Former high schools include:

• Broadway High School (closed 1946 after having lost a quarter of its students to the Japanese internment; incorporated into what is now Seattle Central Community College), Capitol Hill
• Lincoln High School (closed 1981), Wallingford. The former Lincoln building has been used as a temporary location for other high schools; see Wallingford, Seattle, Washington.
• Queen Anne High School (closed 1981, now an apartment building), Queen Anne

External links

• Seattle Public Schools