My eigth grade twins really love this small school with BIG personality. They feel supported and…read moreacademically challenged.

Incredible school! Incredible educational experience for students and one of the only independent…read moreschools in Seattle are with an international boarding program which helps to make the NW school a richly diverse community. The Northwest School has a deeply committed, and highly competent governance and educational leadership. They are doing the right things for young people. Students who attend the Northwest school love the school, and are happy. One 6th grader described it to me in this way... " the Northwest School is better than Hogwarts!"

Good school, but some of the teachers are part of the "click" culture…read more Blanchett, and Roosevelt ... better.

Worst school I have ever attended. I think this school should be shut down for producing the most…read moredisrespectful and punk kids on the l Planet. Dean of Academics Rich Sterns is an awful human being that I hope never teaches in any academia field for the rest of his lifetime. The price is school is way too high. 98% of students are very rude and mean. 75% of teachers are awful. Only teacher I actually enjoyed here was Chris Kiehn. Terrible experience here at this school and will never recommend anyone to attend here. I wish I would have gone to Roosevelt or Garfield High school instead and met some honest nice people who are down to earth.

School is little bit on fire. The ppl there are amazing, though there are people who are kinda…read moreannoying but it's pretty good

Hamilton is a good school i guess a lot of ppl fight and like in the girls bathroom it's sometimes…read morea mess honestly making friends in this school is quiet easy (atleast for me) everyone is kind. The teachers are okay there are some who are just very strict so uhh !! Math is either confusing for me or she teaches us stuff that we already know but it's ok as long as i'm not having to do a lot of work i'm fine with it but like my math teacher be giving us test like once a month which is uhh A LOt. Sometimes when it's passing period everything is just wild like there is a lot of pushing and very crowded place also the passing period time is only 5 minutes and in my opinion i think that's a little too low for me, one of the biggest issue are the kids fighting like i'm just trying to get to my locker and then some kid fights and pushes me on my locker like what go do it somewhere else Lastly the lunch is like very nasty but there could be a random day when the lunch is just very good but that happens once in a while so..! I rate this school a 7/10

I went to Roosevelt and made many friends there. They have an amazing Jazz and Theatre program…read more However, their Choir teacher Mrs Kent was the worst teacher I ever had. She told me to stand up in front of my entire class to show them "how not to sing" knowing I had my wisdom teeth removed the day before. She was misogynistic, picked favorites and singled out the girls for laughing with each other before class. she said, "why would we expect men to respect us and not see us as objects when we act like that." Other than MRS KENT... Roosevelt was an amazing school.

This school has a great track and field that is open on the weekends. The parking wasn't an issue…read morefor me either. I would very much recommend this track to other runners.

This school is simply unacceptable. It is NOT a suitable learning environment for our children. The…read moreplace is old and unsanitary, and the staff seem like they do not enjoy working there, according to my child Jimmy. This school needs to rehire their staff and remodel the campus if they want a better Whitman.

I don't want to write a review where everyone is bad because we had one bad experiences but I've…read morehad mostly good experiences here at Whitman I will be switching schools going from here to villa academy but this school is very nice most of the staff is very nice there strict but reasonable and I must say the school is saying no bully tolerance but they don't do A lot to enforce that but most of the bad things that happen to the school such as vandalism and bomb threats and fights are no thanks to the 8 graders not saying all off them are like this but a lot of them vandalize I have witnessed my self and I encourage the school try and find the people who do this via cameras or other but I feel bad for the staff and janitor's who pick up the mess us boys and girls leave in the bathroom but the teachers and staff are nice I've close with my history teacher and ELA teacher the school it's self is I'm not the best condition the tiles are uneven there rust and other weird stuff you can find but all in all this is a pretty nice school lots to improve though

I contacted the enrollment department to find out about summer programs and they replied back…read morepromptly and I was informed that once the program initiates the enrollment process I will be contacted.

I went to the bush school for 7 years, and had to leave after my sixth grade year. The lower…read moreschool had it's problems, but it was mostly the middle school that was the reason for me leaving. The staff and teachers do not intervine bullying or physical fights. And I had a teacher that would bully me for the amusement of my classmate, and nothing was done about it in the end. My parents respectfully told the head of the middle school the problems, and he did absolutely nothing, and started trying to gaslight my family into thinking it was somehow fixed. The middle school counsellor was absolute garbage, she threatened to call the police on me when I stood I to leave her office to go to the bathroom after I got falsely accused of self harming in my science class. They were not flexible about teaching kids the way they need to be taught in order to learn. While I hadn't yet been diagnosed with autism I think that they still should have been more patient with me because it was obvious the way that they were teaching me, as well as a few other kids, in a way that worked for us. They also fired a bunch of beloved teachers for no good reason, and promoted a bunch of terrible teachers including one that was kind of racist. They have prided themselves about being inclusive to everyone, yet would not let me use the bathroom correlated with my gender identity because I'm trans. And they treated popular kids way bette. There's a TON of other problems with the bush school that I just don't want to get into right now, but I hope you get the point. I would put 0/5 stars if I could, I do not recommend this school at all.

This is to the principal especially Ms Byrne I say no to the no phone policy it it's annoying for…read moresome students who are desperate for the sure some have found another freedom to get around the policy but why fucking bother with that #End the policy NOW!

James A. Garfield high school is the home to the Mighty Bulldogs…read more Known as a school with perennial basketball and track teams, both boys and girls also has a very strong academic program producing numerous National Merit Scholars. It is also the home to an outstanding fine arts program. Both the Jazz band and the Orchestra have won both local and national awards of outstanding merit. The Jazz program under the direction of Clarence Acox has an endowment and foundation supporting them. http://garfieldjazz.org/sponsors.html The Orchestra is under the direction of Marcus Tsutakawa, the Friends of the GHS Orchestra help support this fine group. http://www.garfieldorchestra.org/ Alumni foundation has a large following as well: http://www.garfieldhsf.org/ Educational programs are plentiful here, and as long as you are willing to learn, the staff here is more than willing to give you the chance to succeed. An unusual program of study offered here is Marine Sciences, with annual trips to Hawaii and Australia are not uncommon. Plenty of interesting programs abound, can you take up the challenge?

Odea was a really fun school to go to and I highly recommend it to any aspiring gentleman…read more Athletes, no joke, this is where you belong. Just look at their history. The only thing that sucked was having penis' consistently drawn on my assignments, carved on my text books, and chiseled into my locker. Lots of craftsmen at the school. You try turning in a paper about Mother Teresa with a penis delicately drawn across the heading.

I did not have a good freshman year of HS here, the dean was very rude and disrespectful, don't…read moresend your kids here.

Ok I'm going to balance the bad reviews with some realism. High school is rough for some and can be…read morea difficult time. However, my experience at Ballard grew me into a successful adult and the caring staff and well planned curriculum prepared me to excel at university and beyond. There will always be all sorts in high school, but Ballard did a wonderful job preparing me to be a contributing member of society. If I still lived in Seattle I would send my own kids here.

One of Ballard's fellow students here--just thought I could pitch in my two cents about this place…read more I think it'd be good to get to know this place from a students point of view. I've been going here for two years now, currently in my Sophomore year which has been an interesting journey. I had a few first hard months when I got here because a majority of my friends had gone to Ingraham. I quickly became familiar with the building as it's pretty geometrically shaped and easy to navigate. I had no trouble finding my classes and the "pods" as they call them are very easy to find, same with the classes within this pods. The teachers though, are really a hit or miss. You either get a fantastic teacher who is willing to interact with their students and engage academically as well as socially with them--at the right time of course. Then you can wind up with someone that doesn't have any charisma or, by the looks of it, no motivation to teach at all. I imagine that there is a middle ground somewhere in there but from my experience and others, it seems to be one or the other. The admin, for the most part, are amazing. Extremely helpful and most of the time, can come to a resolution to whatever you're dealing with. My counselor, (which is curated by last name) Mr. Kramer was very helpful when I came in to talk about my classes and succeeding academically. He gave me insight into what could be best for me to do to achieve and I think it's worked out great. Even though I did have a speed bump with one of the VP's, I can still say that the admins are great. Now, it's not really my place to tell someone how this school is by the way the people are because everyone has different personal experiences, but there is one large recurring problem in this place. The drug and alcohol abuse is extremely prominent and is honestly something I hate having to deal with. I know what the adults will say; "it's high school, people will experiment." At the level it's at here, this isn't experimenting. I get when students want to try marijuana or cigarettes but I think it's well past experimentation when you have kids dealing cocaine, meth and other hardcore drugs right outside at the bus stop. Same with the buying and selling of alcohol, it can happen right in front of a faculty and they'll do nothing, at most just give the kid a slap on the wrist. The overall environment of this school is gloomy. I can have fun but at the same time it's just sad. There are classrooms with no windows and the tint of the tungsten lights can just put you to sleep. That is why I enjoy being on the second floor where windows line of the top of the hallways and let some natural light in. Anyways, thanks for reading this if you do.