Private schools are a bigger deal in Seattle than in most major American cities. Only San Francisco and Milwaukee enroll a larger share of their K-12 students in these pricey institutions. And one of the region’s economic engines was born from a couple brainiacs who used to hack their class schedules at a ballyhooed campus in North Seattle.
Lakeside School can still brag about its alums all these years later. The alma mater of Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates is the state’s top-ranked private high school for 2023, according to Niche’s list. The Overlake School in Redmond and Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland took second and third, respectively. University Prep and Seattle Academy, both
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