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Award Winning Schools
Bellevue is recognized nationally for its award winning schools, innovative curriculum and exceptional teachers. Bellevue Public School District operates sixteen elementary schools, seven middle schools and six high schools. Total student enrollment is approximately 15,000.

Basics and Beyond
The Bellevue School District Bellevue is recognized nationally as a leader in providing strong basic education skills while introducing innovative and successful learning initiatives such as, full-day kindergarten open to all students, advanced placement offerings in every high school and opportunities to study six years of foreign-language. Diversity can be seen in Bellevue's public schools through the 53 languages that are spoken.

Top of the Class
A minimum of 85% of Bellevue grads attends community college and University. SAT scores have increased forty-three points in just five years, from 1084 to 1108.

Technology in the Classroom
Bellevue students are connected to the Internet. Throughout Bellevue schools, technology is seamlessly woven into the fabric of learning. For example, the ratio of five students to one networked computer is above the national average of about nine to one. In addition, the number of high school juniors with computers at home climbed from 68 percent in 1991 to 90 percent in 1997. The Bellevue School board has adopted a set of district-wide technology proficiencies to insure that each student will learn skills such as word processing, information retrieval, networking and utilizing multimedia in communications.

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