Bellevue High School CEEB Code: 480070 2018-2019 10416 SE Wolverine Way Bellevue, WA 98004

Telephone: (425) 456-7031 FAX: (425) 456-7030 website: www.bsd405.org/bhs Principal: Vic Anderson Assistant Principals: Bret Cochrun and Michael Schiehser Counselors: Elana Jimenez Mary Beth Smith Richard S. Brown, Jr. Sarah Manesh Emily Klipper [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

The School Community Bellevue High School is one of four comprehensive public high schools in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington. The school aggressively promotes academic excellence through an open enrollment philosophy of its Advanced Placement program and other accelerated classes. Accreditation: Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Memberships: The College Board, Pacific Northwest Association of College Admissions Counselors.

School Enrollment 1542 Ethnicity: African American 2% Asian 32% Hispanic 8% Multi-Ethnic 10% Caucasian 49%

The Curriculum The academic program provides a seven period day with a 30 minute tutorial session. Ninth and tenth grade students are required to take seven classes; eleventh and twelfth grade students are required to take six classes. Graduation requirements: English 4.0 credits Career and Tech 1.0 credit Mathematics 3.0 credits Physical Education 1.5 credits Social Studies 3.5 credits Lab Science 3.0 credits World Language 2.0 credits Electives 3.5 credits Fine Arts 2.0 credits Health 0.5 credit

Must meet standards on Washington State High School Proficiency and End-of-Course exams

Total Credits 24.0 Minimum GPA required: 2.00 Community Service: 40 hours

Advanced Placement (AP) is an open enrollment program with 29 AP courses offered leading to AP Exams. Classes offered during the 2018-2019 school year included: AP English Lit & Comp. AP Physics C AP 3D Design AP Lang. & Amer. Lit. AP Biology AP Photo 2D AP Calculus AB AP Chemistry AP Computer Art 2-D AP Statistics AP Environmental Science AP Capstone AP World History AP French Language AP Music Theory AP United States History AP Spanish Language AP American Government AP Spanish Literature **** AP Micro Economics AP Japanese Language Total 2018 AP exams: 2,043 AP Macro Economics AP Computer Science Total Scholars: 380 AP Psychology AP Computer Sci. Principles AP Physics 1 AP Art/Design AP Physics 2 AP Drawing

Honors Courses: Freshman and Sophomore English Composition and Literature, Advanced Calculus (college level Math 124), Differential Equations (college level Math 307), Japanese 6, French Literature, Honors Acting, Honors Symphonic Band, Honors Chamber Orchestra, Honors Wind Ensemble, Honors Concert Orchestra, Honors Sinfonia, Honors Chorale, Special Topics Computer Science.

Running Start: This Washington State program allows qualifying high school students to enroll in college classes that earn both high school and college credit. BHS students attend Bellevue Community College and Seattle Central Community College. Tech Prep: Students enrolled in designated Tech Prep courses earn college credit. WaNIC: Consortium of schools offering career/vocational courses.

Grading and Ranking Letter grades are assigned on a 4.0 system. No “+” or “-“ grades are included on the transcript or in the GPA. All credited classes are included in computing the unweighted GPA. Bellevue High School does not rank. Approved credits earned elsewhere are noted with the “TR” code preceding the course name and/or in the “Schools Attended” section of the transcript. Credits earned elsewhere are reviewed in the context of Bellevue School District standards. Letters of Recommendation: Bellevue School District does not require teachers to write letters of recommendation.

Class of 2018 Profile Class Size 422 College Matriculation: 346 (82% of the class) Students matriculating to 4 year colleges 310 (73% of the class) Students matriculating to 2 year colleges 36 (8% of the class) Test Statistics: Bellevue HS Washington National SAT – I Evidence Based Reading and Writing 623 539 538 SAT – I Math Mean 678 533 533 ACT Composite (2017) 27.1 21.9 21.0

Class of 2017 College Attendance (as reported by students) In-State: Columbia University Texas A&M University Bellevue College Cooper Union Texas Christian University Central Washington University Creighton University Trinity University DigiPen Institute of Technology DePaul University Tufts University Edmonds Community College Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Tulane University Evergreen State College Emerson College United States Air Force Academy Gonzaga University Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering United States Military Academy Northwest University Georgia Institute of Technology United States Naval Academy Seattle Pacific University Hofstra University University of Alabama Seattle University Harvey Mudd College University of Arizona University of Puget Sound Hillson International Leadership CollegeUniversity of British Columbia University of Washington, Seattle Hult International Business School University of California, Davis University of Washington, Bothell Indiana University, Bloomington University of California, Irvine University of Washington, Tacoma Jacksonville University University of California, Los Angeles Washington State University Linfield College University of California, Santa Barbara Western Washington University Lehigh University University of California, Santa Cruz Whitman College Loyola Marymount University University of Colorado /Boulder Montana State University, Bozeman University of Dayton Out-of-State: New Mexico Military Institute University of Denver Arizona State University New York University University of Idaho Barnard College Northwestern University University of Michigan Bentley University Northeastern University University of Montana, Missoula Boise State University Occidental College University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Boston University Pace University University of Oregon Brandeis University Pomona College University of Portland Brigham Young University Pennsylvania State University University of Rochester Brown University Purdue University University of San Diego Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Reed College University of Southern California Carnegie Mellon University San Diego State University University of Utah Catholic University of America San Francisco Art Institute University of Warsaw Chabot College San Jose State University Vassar College Champlain College Santa Clara University Westmont College Chapman University School of the Art Inst., Chicago Wheaton College Claremont McKenna College Scripps College Whittier College Carnegie Mellon University Southern Methodist University Willamette University College of Southern Nevada Stanford University Yale University Colorado College Swarthmore College Colorado School of Mines Syracuse University Colorado State University Temple University