Highline School District

Highline School District is a public school system in Washington. As of October 2007, it serves 17,331 students and has 997 teachers. Highline serves the cities of Burien, Des Moines, and SeaTac.

tructure

Highline consists of four main "service areas", Evergreen, Highline, Mount Rainier, and Tyee, which once represented the district's four high schools. Students in the Highline and Mount Rainier service areas generally attend the area's high school; students in the Evergreen and Tyee service areas attend one of the service area's three small schools. Each service area also contains one middle school which acts as a feeder to the area's high school(s). The four service areas are further divided into separate areas corresponding to the district's elementary schools, which also act as feeders to the area's middle school.

The district's current superintendent is John Welch, the former deputy superintendent. The school board consists of five members: Bernie Dorsey, Susan Goding, Sili Savusa, Julie Burr Spani, and Michael Spear.

History

The district's first school, Highline High School, opened in 1924. Evergreen High School, Mount Rainier High School, and Tyee High School were added at later times to compensate for the district's growing population.

In the mid-2000s, Highline commenced a major effort to reverse its schools' declining performance. The most significant aspect of this effort was the conversion of Evergreen and Tyee into three small schools each. Highline and Mount Rainier underwent similar programs, however each remains a single comprehensive high school, and only freshmen are divided into smaller groups. In the same time frame, Aviation High School and Highline Big Picture, two specialized schools, opened.

chools and properties

High schools

*Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment
*Arts & Academics Academy
*Aviation High School
*Global Connections High School
*Health Science & Human Services High School
*Highline Big Picture
*Highline High School
*Mount Rainier High School
*Odyssey — The Essential School
*Technology, Engineering, & Communications School

Middle schools

*Cascade Middle School
*Chinook Middle School
*Pacific Middle School
*Sylvester Middle School

Elementary schools

*Beverly Park Elementary
*Bow Lake Elementary
*Cedarhurst Elementary
*Des Moines Elementary
*Gregory Heights Elementary
*Hazel Valley Elementary
*Hilltop Elementary
*Madrona Elementary
*Marvista Elementary
*McMicken Heights Elementary
*Midway Elementary
*Mount View Elementary
*North Hill Elementary
*Parkside Elementary
*Seahurst Elementary
*Shorewood Elementary
*Southern Heights Elementary
*White Center Heights Elementary

Other facilities

*Evergreen Campus
*Puget Sound Skills Center
*Tyee Educational Complex

External links

* [http://hsd401.org Highline Public Schools]