Best private high schools in the Seattle area, ranked by published college outcomes

Which private high schools in the Seattle area have the strongest published college outcomes?

Among the 6 private high schools in the Seattle area with a counted college list, Lakeside School sends the most graduates to the Ivy+ twelve, 36 per class year (180 over 5 class years), followed by Eastside Preparatory School (7) and University Prep (6.2).

How many private high schools in the Seattle area publish a college list?

6 of the 72 private high schools in the Seattle area publish a college list with counts, 8 publish a list without counts, and 58 publish no list we have read.

Which private high schools in the Seattle area are boarding schools?

2 of the 72 private high schools in the Seattle area are listed as boarding schools by the TABS member directory: King'S School and The Northwest School.

Which private high schools in the Seattle area are religiously affiliated?

On the federal Private School Survey, 8 of the 72 private high schools in the Seattle area are Catholic, 29 have another religious affiliation and 35 are nonsectarian.

What families are also choosing at a private school

Parents are not only shopping for college outcomes. The tables above count where graduates enrolled, and a high school is also four years of a teenager's days: who they spend them with, what the school asks them to value, and whether the adults know them.

• Community and values fit. A private school sets its own mission and expectations, and the application, the entrance exam and the interview work as a fit signal in both directions. On the federal Private School Survey, 8 of these schools are Catholic, 29 have another religious affiliation and 35 are nonsectarian.
• Residential life. 2 of these schools offer boarding, per the TABS member directory, so living on campus is part of what they offer.
• Class size. Class size is a fair question for each school's admissions office; we hold no student–teacher ratio for the schools listed here.
• Advising. Each private school builds its own college-advising model, so the useful question is how many students each counselor carries and how early the work starts.
• Arts and athletics access. A smaller school can mean more students on each team and in each production; ask each school what participation looks like.

Public schools are a great choice when a family cannot afford a private school, and a published college list is one of the few outcome measures a private school and a public school can be read on side by side.

Every other private high school in the Seattle area with a page on Reach (58)

Listed alphabetically. These schools publish no college list we have read; that is all their absence from the tables above means.

School	City	Grades	Affiliation
Academy For Precision Learning	Seattle	—	Nonsectarian
Academy Schools	Tukwila	—	Nonsectarian
Archbishop Murphy High School	Everett	9–12	Catholic
Auburn Adventist Academy	Auburn	9–12	Other religious
Bellevue Christian School	Clyde Hill	—	Other religious
Brightmont Academy - Redmond Campus	Redmond	7–12	Nonsectarian
Brightmont Academy - Sammamish	Issaquah	6–12	Nonsectarian
Brightmont Academy--Seattle Campus	Seattle	5–12	Other religious
Brock'S Academy	Woodinville	2–12	Nonsectarian
Burley Christian School	Burley	—	Other religious
Cascade Christian -Junior High/High School	Puyallup	7–12	Other religious
Cascade Vista Baptist School	Kent	—	Other religious
Children'S Institute For Learning Differences	Renton	2–12	Nonsectarian
Chrysalis High School	Woodinville	7–12	Nonsectarian
Concordia Christian Academy	Tacoma	—	Other religious
Crosspoint	Bremerton	—	Other religious
Dartmoor School	Seattle	7–12	Nonsectarian
Dartmoor School	Issaquah	4–12	Nonsectarian
Derech Emunah Dba Seattle Jewish Girls High School	Seattle	9–12	Other religious
Dolan Learning Center Llc	Woodinville	3–12	Nonsectarian
Eastside Academy	Bellevue	9–12	Other religious
Evergreen Lutheran High School	Tacoma	9–12	Other religious
Forest Ridge School Of The Sacred Heart	Bellevue	5–12	Catholic
Fusion Academy Seattle	Seattle	6–12	Nonsectarian
Hillside Student Community School	Bellevue	5–12	Other religious
Holy Names Academy	Seattle	9–12	Catholic
Island Christian Academy	Langley	—	Other religious
John F Kennedy Catholic High School	Burien	9–12	Catholic
Life Christian Academy	Tacoma	—	Other religious
New Horizon School	Renton	4–12	Nonsectarian
Northwest Yeshiva High School	Mercer Island	9–12	Other religious
O'Dea High School	Seattle	9–12	Catholic
One School Global North America Seattle Campus	Seattle	3–12	Other religious
Overlake Specialty School	Bellevue	3–12	Nonsectarian
Pacific Learning Academy	Sammamish	7–12	Nonsectarian
Privett Academy	Mercer Island	9–12	Nonsectarian
Providence Classical Christian School	Bothell	—	Other religious
Puget Sounds Community School	Seattle	6–12	Nonsectarian
Rainier Christian High School	Auburn	7–12	Other religious
Seattle Christian Schools	Seatac	—	Other religious
Seattle Lutheran High School	Seattle	9–12	Other religious
Seattle Voctech School	Bellevue	6–12	Nonsectarian
Seattle Waldorf High School	Seattle	9–12	Nonsectarian
Seattle Waldorf School	Seattle	—	Nonsectarian
Shoreline Christian School	Shoreline	—	Other religious
Solomon International School	Bellevue	7–12	Nonsectarian
Sound Christian Academy	Tacoma	—	Other religious
Spring Academy	Seattle	6–12	Nonsectarian
Stella Maris Academy	Edmonds	—	Catholic
Summit Classical Christian School	Bellevue	—	Other religious
The Polytech	Seattle	10–12	Nonsectarian
Torah Academy Of The Pacific Northwest	Seattle	9–12	Other religious
True Faith Academy	Wauna	3–12	Other religious
United Seattle&Bellevue Korean Sch Bellevue Campus	Bellevue	—	Nonsectarian
Valley View Christian School	Everett	—	Other religious
Washington Preparatory School	Bothell	5–12	Nonsectarian
Woodinville Montessori School	Bothell	—	Nonsectarian
Yellow Wood Academy	Mercer Island	2–12	Nonsectarian

Other metros are on the private high schools by metro index. The same arithmetic across every state is the Ivy+ enrollment board; for one college at a time, see which private schools send the most students to each college.

Ivy+ means these twelve: Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University in the City of New York, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Duke University. A graduate is counted once, at the college the school says they enrolled at; the per-class-year figure is the published total divided by the class years the school's own document covers, and both are shown. A school that is not on this page did not publish a numbered matriculation list we could read — that is all absence means here. It is never a statement about a school's graduates. Lists of acceptances (where students were admitted, not where they enrolled) are never counted in this ranking: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list, so counting the two together would compare different things. Those lists are ranked on their own, separately. Grades and religious affiliation are from the National Center for Education Statistics' Private School Survey. Boarding is read from the TABS member directory — The Association of Boarding Schools' 2026 list of its US member schools — matched onto our school pages by exact or town-confirmed name (173 of them). A school that directory does not list is not called a boarding school on a guess, so it waits for the next directory pass rather than appearing here. A school is listed here when its NCES coordinates fall within 30 miles of the metro's center and it is in WA.