# West Seattle High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530771001262`
- **School name**: West Seattle High School
- **Location**: SEATTLE, WA 98116
- **Address**: 3000 CALIFORNIA AV SW
- **District**: Seattle School District No. 1 (LEAID `5307710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 47.57690, -122.38450
- **Phone**: (206)252-8800
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7986451 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Seattle_High_School
- **Founded**: 1917

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,479
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 65
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 18.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 10
  - proficiency_math_decile: 7
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 8.5
  - grad_combined_decile: 8
  - el_progress_decile: 6
  - regularattendance_decile: 4
  - ninthgradeontrack_decile: 9
  - dualcredit_decile: 7
  - sqss_combined_decile: 6.666666
  - _2025_score: 7.85
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 24

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.6% (166 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.7%
- **Black/African American**: 7.2%
- **Asian**: 6.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 63.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 11.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 19.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.3% — 151 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 54 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,281
- **Federal share**: $748
- **State + local share**: $18,533
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,360
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,438,038
- **Federal share**: 9.3%
- **State share**: 50.6%
- **Local share**: 40.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,907,568

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $102,725
- **Poverty rate**: 2.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 65.2%
- **Unemployment**: 10.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,788
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.9 miles (PACIFIC SOUND RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 87
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (PIER 1 PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SEATTLE PUBLIC UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.50567 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lafayette Elementary School** — 0.2 mi away, 7.46% (this school: 14.57%)
- **Madison Middle School** — 0.4 mi away, 6.56% (this school: 14.57%)
- **Genesee Hill Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 4.38% (this school: 14.57%)
- **Alki Elementary School** — 1.1 mi away, 7.72% (this school: 14.57%)
- **Pathfinder K-8 School** — 1.6 mi away, 2.85% (this school: 14.57%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/west-seattle-high-school-seattle/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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