Celebrating Successes from 2024
As we begin the 2025 calendar year, we want to take a moment to reflect on what took place in 2024. While we had a number of challenges, including the state’s continued failure to fully fund public education, we also had many shared successes and celebrations. Below are just a few highlights.
2024 Highlights:
- In June 2024, we successfully graduated 1,769 students. Our well-prepared students earned close to $12 million in scholarships and the majority went on to pursue a post-secondary education. Northshore’s graduation rate is 94.8 percent.
- Our efforts to support student belonging are making a difference with 81.1 percent of responding 3-12th grade students sharing they have an adult at school they can count on no matter what.
- We broke ground on construction projects at six schools. These expansion projects, funded by our 2022 bond, will significantly improve the learning and working conditions for our staff and students.
- Northshore’s Family Engagement Specialists hosted our first Latino/Hispanic Graduation Celebration. This event was co-designed with our parents. Over 400 parents, students, and extended family attended.
- We continued to see positive growth in reading for our youngest learners, with a marked increase in academic performance of our Latino/Hispanic students.
- In math, close to 64 percent of eighth grade students successfully completed algebra laying a foundation for higher math course completion, and 72 percent of our 2024 graduates completed 4 or more years of math or math-equivalent courses.
- In Operations we balanced a very challenging 2024-25 budget in partnership with our various labor groups and with feedback from parents and students, continued to add more plant-based options to our school menus, responded to numerous weather-related incidents, and enrolled new students two months earlier than ever before helping our planning efforts for this school year;
- And finally, we celebrated along with Kim Broomer, Kindergarten teacher at Ruby Bridges Elementary, as she was honored for her work to create general education classrooms that support all students and named Washington state’s teacher of the year for 2025.
These outcomes reflect the efforts of many - our staff, families, and our incredible students.