After sending two of my three girls to RAHS, I can't say enough good things about this school…read more This school offers everything a parent is looking for, teachers who are challenging and caring at the same time, an administration that is willing to help the students learn good values and lead them to success, and a place where everyone knows your name. Voted as the one of the top 4 schools in Washington state, this school stands up to its reputation.

Hello! Im a former student here, I was apart of the class of 2023. First let me start off by saying…read moreAmazing teacher, Terrible administrators. Now what I mean by that is that within my four years attending this school I noticed that my teachers would support me in pretty much every decision i've made for myself. Now I will admit I wasnt the brightest student but let me explain myself. In the beginning, Freshman year, i felt inspired to go to school. I took the Metro bus every morning not just to my highschool here at raisbeck but to Foster highschool as well. I went to foster to attend a class in the morning before my actual classes started every morning. After my freshman year was over, they actually never credited me for my time spent in the morning after i filled out all the "paperwork" we had at the time. I ran in circles as i was sent back and forth asking the same questions no results. Now you may be reading this, thinking oh, thats not a big deal. Unfortunately this is just one of many different scenarios have ruin my experience here. Let me also talking about how the students of dean mis calculate my credits to graduate. Not once, twice, but three different occasions. With each occasion they contacted my parents and i had to explain to them i was still infact passing. After the third time this notification happened i told my my father to come with me to school and ill show him how what i've been through. In doing so i got both the dean pt students and students councilor to have a seat and talk with me after school. Well at this point in life Ive been working in customer service for the past 2 years and even got offered the manger position. (now i work at boeing ) I understand who and i can't talk to. This is one of those moments no matter how well i tried to show the different mistakes brought opon me and how it's affected me. What i mean by this was there wasnt a moment where when i was explaining my situation i didnt get talked over, and when these situations happened i stop talking let him finish then ask how it what he just said had to do with anything with my situation and the reason why i brought my father down. Instead of getting an inperson apologizing and saying in sorry i made a mistake, i quoted the student of dean said "If you dont respect me we can't have this conversation." Wow. just wow, you would think someone who deal with highschool students all day would understand that u dont need to respect someone to have a respectful conversation. I said "Mr, Sav I lost respect for you when u caller my father telling him i was failing highschool." he than proceeded to say "then we cant have this conversations." I stood up right there and say thank you for your time and have a nice day. These are the same people that ask me if i had depression and ask if i needed professional help. While in fact I was thriving out of their control. Overall If You Want Your Child To Have A Highschool Experience. This Is Not The Place. Below i'll attach an imagies of emails showing one of the times my credit have been miscalculated. I forgot to mention A hood fan in one of the classrooms is venting chemicals into another, it was discovered by students burning insect inside of it and being able to smell the insect a rooms over. A hood fan is to removes airborne grease, combustion products, fumes, smoke, heat, and steam from the air by evacuation of the air and filtration. In this case it's unclear if students and teachers have been exposed to harmful chemicals as the hood fan has not been serviced, and was never serviced for the duration i attended. Who knows when the last time that has been done. Thank you for spending time reading this, If You a teacher I MISS YOU!!! also Ms, Tipton(School Principal) i wish you took more control, ur minions are outa control

Great private school, my siblings have gone here since Kindergarten and its such a small little…read moreschool where everyone knows everyone pretty much! Parents are mostly always involved and its always nice to know your kids get more attention since the classes are not overcrowded. When my son is old enough to start school, this may be the one we might enroll him in, if our income permits it! But the Catholicism is very much a huge part of this schools teaching as well as the basic education, they really make it an importance how much they want parents to work with their children with their studies to succeed. Overall, check it out. Its a little older but theres a lot of history here too!

I'm giving this school 3 stars. Because most of the times…read morethe teacher don't handle the problems as needed, let's say a kid was getting bullied which a saw a billion of times, the teachers Noor the staffs barely helps all they say is "I'm sorry this is happening to you" and that never even helps a bit. I've seen lots of racism going around here it's just disgusting honestly that students are getting maked fun of of there race/ skin color. Other then that some teachers are good so respect to those teachers.

Horrible school unfair treatment kids don't get in trouble even if they harassed other student and…read moreonly a warning and they just never stop the harassment teachers and don't do anything about it principal are allowed to go Into any bathroom even if they may be a male female Made my kid felt very uncomfortable when their principle who is a male went into the girls bathroom

Chief Sealth has SO MUCH POTENTIAL. For the opportunities that are given to students, so few…read moreactually take advantage of them. Programs and Opportunities: -IB (International Bachelorette)- A program in the Junior-Senior years where you can get an IB diploma by having a full IB schedule. IB is similar to AP in the sense that it has harder course work. IB credits can be transferred internationally, being good for a student that wants to go out of state. -Trio Program (college prep) -Upward Bound (college prep) -College Bound (college prep/scholarship) -clubs (a lot of clubs) -Language classes (Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish) -Music Program -YMCA programs -Neighborhood Healthcare (super important for low-income students/ students that need to do things discreetly). The one thing that bothers me the most at Sealth is, nobody has spirit. Spirit is something that has a huge impact on the way you experience high school. I'd say less than 15% of the school dresses up for spirit days, participates in pep assemblies, and attends dances. It makes for a very lame high school experience. The teachers are the people who have the most spirit. You can go to ANY other school, and they will have at least double the student spirit than Sealth. Garfield is a perfect example. As for sports, Chief Sealth quite frankly isn't the best in sports. The sports that do have a lot of potential are usually overlooked. Luckily, some sports have been receiving more recognition, like wrestling. Quite honestly, the school spends too much money on some sports, not going to say which ones. The athletes are sore losers a lot of the time, so sportsmanship could be improved. On to teachers, the teachers at Sealth are pretty good. I'd say they all have super different styles of teaching. Out of all the teachers that I have had from Sealth, 3 have actually bothered me. The thing that all 3 of these teachers exhibited was passive aggressiveness. Being passive aggressive is just such a bad approach to teaching, students don't feel safe sharing their questions or concerns. There are some other teachers who some may think are crazy, but those "crazy" teachers end up being the most influential and kids take the most away from them. The last thing about Sealth: they recently put in a new rule. If you're a running start student or part-time student, you're not allowed to be on campus unless it's fifteen minutes before your class. This rule is dumb, there are so many other reasons that a student might need to be at their high school campus. What if a student wants to get their FREE/REDUCED lunch? What if a student needs to talk to their counselor? What if a student has nowhere else to go because they live far from the school? Whoever implemented this rule obviously has no idea about students' outside lives/circumstances. The high school should be a safe place where the student can work on their homework and eat lunch, even if they are a few hours early. They're still apart of the school, they're still enrolled at the school. The thing is, this rule was created to prevent running start kids from coming and wandering around the school (which rarely ever happens), but the school can't even control the kids that have full-time schedules at the school. There are always like 20+ kids just wandering the halls and skipping. Worry about the kids in the school first.

Some good teachers. Bad councilors and scheduling. Ive given feedback and idead how to make…read morescheduling fair and consistent but principal and councilor dont listen to parents.

A good sport team. People might think it's a dumb school but it's really not it's just the people…read morethat were there made it look bad

South Lake is the High School you wish you went to while you complain about not being seen or heard…read more at your school and doing assignments you can't relate to. Stop wasting your time, watching the clock in your class and come build the future with us.