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International Community School

11133 Ne 65th St, Kirkland, WA, 98033 -

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Definition of Terms

International Community School

School Level

High school

School Type

Other/alternative school

Grades Offered

Grades 7 - 12

County

King County, WA

Awards

Blue Ribbon School – Selected in 2005

Students & Faculty

Total Students

380 students

% Male / % Female

43% / 57%

Total Classroom Teachers

15 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 7 - 63 students

Grade 8 - 65 students

Grade 9 - 62 students

Grade 10 - 52 students

Grade 11 - 68 students

Grade 12 - 70 students

This School

(WA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:25

1:21

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(WA) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	6%
% Asian	21%	6%
% Hispanic	2%	12%
% Black	n/a	5%
% White	77%	69%

Additional Student Information

This School

(WA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

n/a

22%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(WA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

View Education Department Test Scores

School District Name

Lake Washington School District

This School's Agency

(WA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	51	5
Number of Students Managed	24,417 students	1,985 students
District Total Revenue	$219,751,000	$16,541,000
District Expenditure	$219,437,000	$16,470,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,000	$8,333
District Expenditure / Student	$8,987	$8,297
District Graduation Rates	93%	88%

Semifinalists announced for National Merit Scholarships (Seattle Times)
posted on September 16, 2009 at 07:12:24 am
About 16,000 students nationwide were among the top scorers on the 2008 Preliminary SAT, according to the Nationa Merit Scholarship Corp. In the Puget Sound area, the private Lakeside School had the highest number, with 28 semifinalists.
Kirkland girls help team to national soccer championship (Kirkland Reporter)
posted on August 26, 2009 at 06:31:27 pm
Danika Bethune, left, and Amy Johnson played for U.S. Club Soccer National Champs. Deirdre johnson, Contributed
Kirkland rowers compete at Nationals in Cincinnatti (Kirkland Reporter)
posted on June 24, 2009 at 08:24:28 pm
The Sammamish Rowing Association Women’s Team, which includes Kirkland High School graduate Dani Ferrigno, third in from left in front row, and International Community School sophomore Gabby Bull, last on right in front row.
Top High Schools: The Public Elites (Newsweek)
posted on June 9, 2009 at 04:44:20 am
The nation's most elite public high schools fall outside the NEWSWEEK list.
News brief: ICS students place top at FBLA conference (Kirkland Reporter)
posted on May 28, 2009 at 10:40:40 pm
Students of Kirkland’s International Community School achieved outstanding results at the Future Business Leaders of America tate Business Leadership Conference, held in Spokane last month.

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International Community School (ICS) is a small 7-12th grade public school in the Lake Washington School District, with an average of 65 students per grade. It is part of a series of schools founded by Dr. Bruce Saari. Unlike other "International" schools, "International" in the school's name simply reflects an international focus in curriculum. It is not an International School as conventionally defined; see International Schools.
ICS is not part of the Lake Washington School District junior high/high school feeder system. It is a choice school, for which an application must be submitted. All complete applications are accepted from students in the district, and students are entered into a lottery to select those who will be admitted. In the event that there is space available in excess of the applications submitted by in-district students, applications by out of district students are allowed.
The school offers a special six year Humanities/International Studies/Arts core curriculum, instead of the regular no art/LASS(Language Arts and Social Studies). Additionally, students study Spanish, for at least four years, with the intention of achieving fluency. Every year, students from the school go on Focus Week, leaving "the confines of the classroom to expand their knowledge".
Location
The school is located in Kirkland, Washington and serves all students from the Lake Washington School District, which covers eastern King County, Washington.
History
The school was proposed to the Lake Washington school district by parents in 1997 and its program and policies were developed by Dr. Bruce Saari who modeled it after the Bellevue International School, where he had been program developer the previous six years.In every year since it was founded, ICS students have achieved top-tier scores on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) test, and as a result ICS has been ranked among the top few schools in Washington state and the nation. In 2005, it was selected as a No Child Left Behind—Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. In 2007 it was also selected as a Gold Medal School, ranking 17th out of the top 100 schools in US News' Best High School list. In 2008 and 2009, Newsweek selected ICS as one of the Public Elites, the 17 best high schools in the nation. As of the 2007-2008 school year, Cindy Duenas is the principal of ICS, as well as Environmental Adventure School and Community School.
As of 2009, ICS had an enrollment of 380 students. Because of the limited enrollment, students are chosen from applicants from Lake Washington School District's 6th grade class by lottery, as well as limited opportunities for transfer into higher grades. The school has a grandfather clause allowing for students who are members of founding families or who had sibling in the first class of the school to be admitted without going through the lottery. As almost all of the families who are eligible for this exception no longer have children of the eligible ages, the lottery is effectively the only way to enroll in the school.
The mascot for ICS is the Phoenix, and the motto is "Forever We Rise".
External links
LWSD Profile Page of International Community School
International Community School Web Site
History: Founding Bellevue and Lk. Washington International Schools
Lake Washington School District
About ICS

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