[2] In 2013, Newsweek magazine named Bellevue, Interlake, International, Newport and Sammamish to its list of "America's Best High Schools".
[3] In 2013, The Washington Post placed Bellevue, Interlake, International, Newport and Sammamish on its list of "America's Most Challenging High Schools".
[4] In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked Bellevue, Interlake, International and Newport among its "Best High Schools".
[32] On June 10, 2008, Bellevue teachers voted almost unanimously to go on strike if a new contract could not be reached by the end of the summer.
On the evening of September 1, the day before classes would have started, the Bellevue Education Association (BEA) announced the beginning of the strike.
He spent 10 minutes at the school, greeting about 450 students with hand shakes and high fives.
[50] In March 1967, the school district acquired 30 acres of private land through condemnation and eminent domain action.
The processes proceeded without representation which drew the attention of the ACLU [52] and the Juvenile Law Center[53] and went to the Supreme Court of Washington State.
[54] In 2024, Robert Scroggs, formerly a special-education teacher in the district, was arrested for multiple counts of child molestation.