Education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...

is an important part of many Seattleites' lives, particularly due to the high concentration of technology, engineering, and other jobs that require advanced degrees. Of the city's population over the age of 25, 53.8 percent (vs. a national average of 27.4 percent) hold a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

or higher; 91.9 percent (vs. 84.5 percent nationally) have a high school diploma or

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. In fact, the

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surveys indicate that Seattle has one of the highest rates of college graduates among major U.S. cities. In addition to the obvious institutions of education, there are significant adult literacy programs and considerable homeschooling. Seattle is also the most literate city in the United States, based on a study done by Central Connecticut State University.

Colleges and universities

Seattle is home to one of the nation's most respected public universities, the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

. With over 40,000 under-graduates and post-graduates, UW is the largest school in the Pacific Northwest and many of its departments are ranked in the top 10 for research universities in the United States according to the ''Chronicle of Higher Learning''. A study by ''Newsweek International'' in 2006 cited UW as the twenty-second best university in the world. Additionally, the University of Washington was ranked 16th internationally by the '' Academic Ranking of World Universities'' in 2008.Top 500 World Universities (2008)
''Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University'' The city's other prominent universities are Seattle University, a Jesuit university, and

Seattle Pacific University Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a private Christian university in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1891 in conjunction with the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary. It became the Seat ...

, a

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university. There are also a handful of smaller schools, such as the

City University of Seattle City University of Seattle (CityU) is a private university in Seattle, Washington. In 2016–17, CityU enrolled 6,755 students worldwide. The university consists of the School of Business and Management, The School of Education and Leadership, ...

, a private university.

Antioch University Seattle Antioch University Seattle (AUS) is a private, nonprofit liberal arts university founded in 1975 and located in Seattle, Washington. It is part of the Antioch University system that includes campuses in Keene, New Hampshire; Santa Barbara, Calif ...

provide undergraduate and graduate degrees for working adults.

Cornish College of the Arts Cornish College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art college in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1914. History Cornish College of the Arts was founded in 1914 as the Cornish School of Music, by Nellie Cornish (1876–1956), a teacher of ...

The Art Institute of Seattle The Art Institute of Seattle was a for-profit art and culinary school in Seattle, Washington. The school was one of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit art colleges with many branches in North America, owned and operated by ...

, Gage Academy of Art and the School of Visual Concepts offer bachelor's degrees in the fine arts as dance, music, and theatre. Seattle also has three colleges within the Seattle Colleges District system, comprising

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, Central, and South. ''Time'' magazine chose Seattle Central College for best college of the year in 2001, stating the school "pushes diverse students to work together in small teams". Since 2013, Northeastern University has a satellite graduate campus in the

South Lake Union South Lake Union (sometimes SLU) is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because it is at the southern tip of Lake Union. The official boundaries of the City of Seattle Urban Center are Denny Way on the south, beyond which is Den ...

neighborhood.

Primary and secondary education

Seattle Public Schools Seattle Public Schools is the largest public school district in the state of Washington. The school district serves almost all of Seattle. Additionally it includes sections of Boulevard Park and Tukwila. As of 2018, 113 schools are operated by ...

is the school district for the vast majority of the city. It

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without a court order but continue to struggle to achieve racial balance in a somewhat ethnically divided city (the south part of town having more ethnic minorities than the north). In 2006, a challenge to Seattle's racial tie-breaking system made it to the United States Supreme Court. Where the Supreme Court decided that race was not a legal criterion for desegregation, but left the door open for desegregation formulas based on other indicators (e.g., income or socio-economic class). And in 2002,

West Seattle West Seattle is a conglomeration of neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington, United States. It comprises two of the thirteen districts, Delridge and Southwest, and encompasses all of Seattle west of the Duwamish River. It was incorporated as an i ...

's West Seattle High School made headlines in the midst of protests of the school's "Indian" mascot. Despite bitter battles between SPS and Alumni Association President and Attorney Robert Zoffel, the school would later change its mascot to the "Wildcats". A small section of the city is in the

Highline School District Highline Public Schools (HPS) is a public school district in King County, headquartered in Burien, Washington. As of October 2007, it served 17,331 students and had 997 teachers, and served the cities of Burien, much of Des Moines, Normandy Park ...

Public Schools

Most public schools in Seattle are part of the

Seattle School District Seattle Public Schools is the largest public school district in the state of Washington. The school district serves almost all of Seattle. Additionally it includes sections of Boulevard Park and Tukwila. As of 2018, 113 schools are operated by ...

, but a few in the southern portion of the city are part of the

Renton School District Renton School District 403 is a public school district headquartered in Renton, Washington, USA The district boundaries include the vast majority of Renton, all of Bryn Mawr-Skyway, and portions of the adjacent cities and communities of Bellevue ...

. * Seattle Public Schools: High Schools * Seattle Public Schools: K-12 * Seattle Public Schools: Middle Schools * Seattle Public Schools: K-8 * Seattle Public School: Elementary Schools

Private Secondary Schools

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The public school system is supplemented by a moderate number of private schools: five of the high schools are

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, one is

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, and seven are secular. *

Bishop Blanchet High School Bishop Blanchet High School is a private coeducational Catholic high school located north of Green Lake in Seattle, United States. The school was founded in 1954 by the Archdiocese of Seattle, and named for the first bishop of the diocese, A.M ...

* Holy Names Academy *

O'Dea High School O'Dea High School is a Catholic all boys high school founded in 1923 and is located in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood. The school is named after Edward John O'Dea who was bishop of Seattle when the school was built. O'Dea is a part of the Ar ...

Seattle Preparatory School Seattle Preparatory School, popularly known as Seattle Prep, is a private, Jesuit high school located on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. Curriculum Students generally pursue a traditional four-year course of study at Seattle Prep and then p ...

* Seattle Lutheran High School * The Bush School * Lakeside School *

Seattle Waldorf School Seattle Waldorf School is a private, Waldorf school serving grades preschool through 12 with an enrollment of 300 students. It was founded in 1980 and absorbed Hazel Wolf High School in 2007. The high school grades are located at Magnuson Park ...

* Northwest School * Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences * University Prep * Dartmoor School * Puget Sound Community School

Weekend education

The Seattle Japanese School, a Japanese weekend supplementary school, holds its classes in nearby

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.Home page
Seattle Japanese School. Retrieved on March 30, 2014. "住所 919 124th Ave.NE #207 Bellevue, WA 98005"

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Public Schools

Private Secondary Schools

Weekend education

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