Highline High School is a public high school in Burien, Washington,[a] United States, located about 3.5 miles from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.

Highline High School, the flagship high school of the Highline Public Schools district, opened in 1924 and served the cities of Burien, Des Moines, and an area south of Seattle now known as White Center.

[citation needed] The name Highline, for which the school was named, derives from the original name for Des Moines Memorial Drive, which was called the "High Line Road" for its location along the ridge between Puget Sound and the Miller Creek Valley.

[3] Today the name represents the geographic area for Burien, SeaTac, Normandy Park, Des Moines and White Center.

Highline participates in the following sports as a member of the KingCo 2A conference: baseball, basketball, cheer, cross country, dance/drill, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling.