Interlake High School


Interlake High School is a public secondary school in Bellevue, Washington, one of the four traditional high schools in the Bellevue School District. Its mascot is a Saint Bernard named Bernie, and the school's sports teams are known as the "Saints."

History

Interlake High School opened in 1968. In 1997, Interlake began offering the International Baccalaureate program.
In 2003, most of the school was torn to the ground and rebuilt while its students continued to attend class in portables. The new building opened at the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year.

Students

AL Program

The AL program at Interlake is part of the Advance Placement program offered in the Bellevue School District for grades 2 through 12.
The AL program is a selective program; in which applicants must have a minimum score of 144 on the Cognitive Abilities Test. Reading and Quantitative scores must be of the 90th percentile or higher, one of which must be at or above the 97th percentile. Students who usually partake in the AL Program usually graduate from the middle school AL Program offered in two Bellevue School District schools; Odle Middle School and Tyee Middle School. The high school AL program continued from the middle school AL Program extends the science, English, and social studies classes further in the International Baccalaureate program. In the IB program, AL students complete the IB diploma during 10th and 11th grade, rather than the usual 11th and 12th grade.

Notable alumni