LAKE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL @ KIRKLAND…read more I went to high school here from 2018 to 2022, so it's been about three years since I last came back. I decided to take a walk around and check out the new high school renovations, and it's absolutely beautiful. I love all the glass windows throughout the building, it makes the space feel very open and modern. Parking looks pretty much the same as before. If you're a student, you're able to park on the right side of the parking lot. There's also a bus station just down the road from the high school, about a two-minute walk, which a lot of students use. Traffic can get really bad during peak times, especially when students are being dropped off or leaving for the day. Overall, my experience attending this high school was really positive. I loved the people and felt like it was a great school environment. The cafeteria food was pretty decent, you do have to pay for it, and there are also vending machines available. The overall vibe was great, and I genuinely enjoyed my time here. There are also a lot of food places right down the road. If you're a senior and able to leave campus during lunch, I would highly recommend checking them out. Overall, this was a great school and a really positive experience.

This is a great school! There's always something new, but the new bell schedule creates a new list…read morefor each day of the week. Parking is also a challenge with the high enrollment but graduation rates are excellent for Washington state schools

Not very fitting or inclusive. At my time there I was a 5th grade student and my teacher was quite…read moretoxic (this goes for the students as well). Perhaps it focuses more on an IB-Curriculum than their students mental health. Throughout my time there, I felt so alone, so isolated, and yet I carry that trauma with me to this day.

My son is loving his first year here (6th), and the other kids I talk to are really happy. They…read morehave strong academics, good social support, and small class sizes. He has a large enough peer group to be happy with but small enough classes to get the attention he likes. They are a newer, growing school, so there can be minor issues with logistics and new procedures as times, but overall it has been a very positive experience.

Evergreen is an excellent school, my daughter has learned so much here. They provide wonderful…read moreenrichment programs and the teachers are very talented. My daughter was on a 504 plan and it was very well executed and handled.

Evergreen Academy Montessori has been such a gift for our family. From the start, we felt welcomed…read moreinto a warm, thoughtful environment where children are encouraged to be confident, independent, and kind. My son's teacher, Leslie West, has been truly extraordinary. She listens to the kids with real interest, respects them as individuals, and creates a classroom culture that is both joyful and caring. With her guidance, my son has grown in so many ways; he takes pride in caring for himself, loves to help others, and feels capable of learning and doing things on his own. The school clearly values educators who nurture the whole child, and that shines through in everything they do. We're so grateful for Evergreen Academy and can't recommend it highly enough.

This school is an amazing school.All of the teachers are amazing and are very kind and humble. The…read moreeducation there is very amazing. All the teachers help each and every student. This is one of the best schools ever.

My child goes to the Villa Academy…read more We want our kid to be a decent citizen. If she becomes a corporate tycoon, a brilliant scientist or an astronaut, great. But we would like her to do those things while leading a life that respects her fellow man/woman. Next to the door of one of the kindergarten rooms at Villa, the teacher has created a mural with the words, "Respect, Compassion, Self-Discipline, Citizenship, Trustworthiness, Honesty, Responsibility, Fairness, Perseverance, Integrity". The Villa Academy is not some haven for rich kids that merely gives lip service to these values. They walk the walk. Even the earliest preschool classes have seasonal projects that focus on helping others. Service to others is a main focal point. Our child's teachers have all been excellent. Small class sizes with classroom assistants keeps the classroom environment orderly and focused on learning. Mrs Olson, you ROCK. To an outsider, I'm sure Villa might appear to be a bastion of the WASPs. Be careful. As soon as you drop your guard, and stop viewing people as wealthy snobs, you just might discover that most parents at Villa are really very warm hearted folks. People go out of their way to help each other out. And Villa parents are very, very dedicated to both the kids and the school. While my child has benefited from Villa, I think I have grown as a person as well. For what its worth, there are plenty of folks who are not Catholic who send their kids to Villa, and quite a few who are not Christians. We are very, very happy Villa parents. I won't make light of the cost, its not cheap. But people send their children there for a reason, and its not to brag to the neighbors. Its an excellent school, and an excellent community.

As a K-12 alumni, I think it's a true testament to this school that I am now a teacher here! Not…read moreonly that, but my children are going here as well. While we are at the Mill Creek Campus, the ethics and principles are the same. We have always get welcomed and loved here. My teachers at cedar park are the reason why I wanted to be a teacher! Excited for the new middle school building and the growth that's happening rig every day!

Do not recommend this school. Very few teachers seem to actually like their job here. This school…read morewas good until they changed superintendents, and the elementary principal left. Then Covid happened and they were flooded with kids. Classes are too big. If you have a child with any kind of learning disability or anything this is not a good school at all. They barely make accommodations and don't have IEP and 504 programs to help. One year my child's teacher yelled at the class all the time. Kids with parents on campus get special treatment, and this school is very inconsistent with discipline. There are also drugs on campus.

We've been at Brighton for five years after coming from public school, and our experience has been…read morewonderful. With 3 kids who have spanned the range if preschool, elementary, and middle school, I can say the middle school especially has exceeded expectations. Initially, I was nervous because of its smaller size, but it's been fabulous, the teachers embrace the middle school years while preparing students for real-world situations. We've had the honor of having both Ms. Shippers and Ms. Savage twice. Ms. Shippers has years of experience yet brings fresh enthusiasm every day, and Ms. Savage's connection with the kids is remarkable. Brighton truly offers a nurturing, dynamic environment we're so grateful for!

Brighton School is wonderful and we love it!!!!!…read more I've had my kids at Brighton for at least eleven years? I've lose count. My son attended Brighton from first through eighth grade and my daughter started in preschool and is now in sixth grade. My kids are completely different and they have both absolutely thrived at Brighton. Brighton does an awesome job of providing an excellent well-rounded education for many different types of learners and kids. Brighton offers an excellent academic program, but also offers an amazing drama program with Mr. DC, some great sports programs, after school extracurriculars, yearly overnight field trips that get longer with each grade level and culminate in a 10 day East Coast trip for the 8th graders, etc. The greatest asset to Brighton is its staff. Brighton attracts some truly talented, caring and highly invested staff and teachers. There are teachers at Brighton who have truly changed the course of my childrens' lives. Ms. (formerly Gabriel) Savage is my daughter's idol. Ms. Savage is the perfect role model for my child, as she is strong, confident, smart, kind and encouraging. My daughter is a gymnast and she has talked to my daughter about mental blocks. She is a great teacher but she clearly cares about her students in a way that goes beyond what her job requires. Her assistant Ms. Carrie is also so caring, patient and kind. Ms. Durbin is another teacher that made a real difference in my daughter's life. Ms. Durbin was like a second mother to my daughter, or my daughter's stand-in mother at school. My daughter has always had a ton of anxiety about overnight field trips, but knowing that Ms. Durbin would be on the field trip always made her feel better. Ms. Durbin knew when to be serious and get the class under control but could also be so silly and have fun with the class. Mr. DiLorenzo is another incredible asset to the Brighton community. Mr. D. was my child's third grade teacher, and he was an incredibly gifted educator then, and now he is the head of the middle school. Mr. D. can be so fun and silly with the kids, but he also knows when to be serious and address serious issues. My son had an awesome middle school experience at Brighton and during his years there built up a community of friends who carried over into the same high school. Ms. Livingston has been serving the Brighton middle school for years in various capacities and she is AMAZING!!!! She is currently teaching math and she is an awesome math teacher, but she also handles a lot of the administrative stuff for the middle school. She's very friendly, great with the kids, great with the parents, and easy to get along with. Ms. Bodnar, according to my 17 year old son, is "the GOAT" (greatest of all time). Ms. Bodnar teachers study skills and math (I think) but she connects with the kids in a way that few others do. My son emphatically thinks that she is the best teacher at Brighton. Ms. Thaler is also a great language arts teacher. She definitely knows what she is doing and I appreciate that she actually challenges the kids. This is Ms. Parks Lobbs' first year as Head of School, but she has been involved with other parts of the school for years and she appears to be 100% in charge of what is happening and in control of things. As a very long-time parent of Brighton who has observed three separate Heads of School, I think Ms. Parks Lobb is doing a great job. There are a lot of other amazing staff members at Brighton who I am going to forget to mention. We love Coach Matt, who is the kindest, funniest guy to have around. He always greets my daughter in the morning with the biggest smile and it makes me feel so good about dropping her off. He also love Coach Brandon, who has been there for years and is super well loved by all the kids. He made the summer camp a blast for my daughter. We really loved Ms. Becca, who is a former aide who is no longer there. We wish the school brought her back. My son had Ms. Schippers for both hers and his first year at Brighton (first grade) and she made him feel super welcome and safe. I don't remember the full names of my daughter's pre-K teacher and aide (the aide was Sarah) but they were both so amazing! Oh yeah, the parents, kids and community at Brighton are also awesome. Both my kids have made amazing friends and we have done all the playdates, the sleepovers, the skate nights (thanks, PTO!), all of it. My son has friends he literally made in FIRST GRADE and now are JUNIORS in high school and they are part of the same friend group and in some of the same advanced classes. My daughter and her best friends met years ago, some as far back as preschool. I've known those parents just as long. The parents are great and the PTO is currently thriving. I've never been involved in the PTO, but I am very, very grateful for the amazing parents who run it and all that they do. Best money we ever spent!

My son is about to finish his second year at Holy Spirit Lutheran Preschool. The teachers, Miss…read moreRuth and Miss Kieko, are incredible. Miss Ruth is constantly thinking up fun new activities for the students which are educational while remaining play-based. In addition to focusing on Kindergarten readiness skills, she pays close attention to the interests and talents of the students. When she noticed that my son loved talking about construction, she set up a construction play area in the classroom including an area to draw up architectural designs before starting a build. She also set up a fun outdoor play area where the kids have built "habitats" for bugs out of leaves and pebbles, and they can make noise in the "sound garden" where Miss Ruth re-purposed various old kitchen objects along the fence for the kids to drum on. Every week the kids explore a new area of interest, and Miss Ruth comes up with creative and fun ways to dive into the topics. Miss Kieko is one of the kindest and most caring people on the planet. She gently directs students' attention when needed, ensures all the kids are dressed appropriately for the weather before going outside, and often checks in with the parents to tell them about something their child did in class that was funny or sweet. She exudes kindness; and her love for her job, and for the children, is evident in her every interaction. The classroom, though in the basement of the church, is bright and open. There is an exit door from the classroom that leads to the parking lot, which remains locked for security purposes but is handy in case of emergency. The classroom, and all of the church, are clean and well maintained. It is a really cute preschool. First year preschool students will get to see the quilters group each week, which is comprised mainly of older generations from the church community who gather in a space near the classroom each week to quilt. The quilters are really sweet, and I think it is pretty special that the kids get to interact with them from time-to-time, and see their quilting progress. I also love to see this church flying the rainbow flag, and posting signs on and around their building that are based on inclusiveness. All the religious teachings at the preschool level have been age-appropriate and focused on kindness and love. If you are looking for a preschool in the Kirkland area, I highly recommend that you check this one out! They have scholarships available for families needing financial assistance, and their tuition is very reasonable compared to other schools in the area!

From the owner: Holy Spirit Lutheran Preschool is a ministry of Holy Spirit Lutheran Church and is open to all…read morechildren, both in the congregation and as a ministry to the community. Through child-directed play and interest-lead curriculum, our program encourages children to engage with nature and use the scientific process in a uniquely authentic way. Children are free to cultivate a love of learning and the outdoors through meaningful multi-sensory, creative, and community experiences. The teacher creates an intentional environment, that is rich in materials and provides tools to encourage discovery, imagination, and creativity. As disciples of Christ, teachers support spiritual development by modeling respect, compassion, and a love of nature. Playing outdoors allows children to connect with God and the natural world in an organic way. We serve preschool and prekindergarten age children and provide them with life skills to carry into kindergarten and beyond.