Ingraham High School

Edward S. Ingraham International School
Address
1819 North 135th Street Seattle, Washington 98133 United States
Information
School type	Public, Coeducational
Established	1959
Opened	9 September 1959
Status	Open
School district	Seattle Public Schools
Superintendent	Larry Nyland
Principal	Martin Floe
Athletic Director	Traci Huffer
Staff	97
Faculty	65
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,226 (2014–15)
Average class size	25
Classrooms	56
Campus	Urban
Campus size	29 acres (117,359 m²)
Color(s)	Blue, white and gray
Slogan	It’s a matter of pride!
Athletics	22 Varsity teams
Athletics conference	Sea-King: Metro 3A
Nickname	Rams
Newspaper	The Cascade
Yearbook	The Glacier
Communities served	Bitter Lake, Haller Lake, Licton Springs, Crown Hill, Greenwood, Broadview, North Beach, Blue Ridge, Northgate
Feeder schools	Broadview Thomson K-8, Hamilton International Middle School (NW Highly Capable Cohort and Language Immersion), Jane Addams Middle School (NE Highly Capable Cohort), Whitman Middle School (Neighborhood), McClure Middle School, Seattle Country Day School
Website	http://ingrahamhs.seattleschools.org/

Ingraham International School is a public high school, serving grades 9–12 in the Haller Lake neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Opened in 1959, the school is named after Edward Sturgis Ingraham, the first superintendent of the Seattle Public Schools. Since 2002, Ingraham has been an International Baccalaureate school,^[1] and also offers programs such as the Academy of Information Technology.^[2] Ingraham is one of several Seattle high schools offering an International Baccalaureate diploma and classes for high school students in 11th and 12th grades. Since the 2011 school year, Ingraham has also offered an accelerated model of the International Baccalaureate program (IBx), modeled on a similar program in Bellevue School District, allowing students in Seattle Public Schools' highly capable cohort (formerly Accelerated Progress Program). The IBx program was established to provide an alternative to the normal routing to Garfield High School, for the highly capable students. In 2013, Ingraham officially became an International Pathway school, continuing the immersion languages of Spanish and Japanese from Hamilton International Middle School, along with John Stanford and Mcdonald International Schools. Ingraham was recently honored as a Newsweek magazine "Top High School".^[3]

On May 10, 2011, Seattle Schools Interim Superintendent Susan Enfield fired Principal Martin Floe. A week later, on May 18, after a series of protests, Enfield reversed her decision and Floe was reinstated.^[4]

The New Ingraham

An International School

Under the direction of the International Education department, for the 2013-2014 school year, Ingraham's official title changed to Ingraham International School to signify the first year of the Language Immersion pathway being implemented at the school and to strengthen the connection with one of its main feeder schools, Hamilton International Middle School.

Changes to the school

Many changes have happened at Ingraham over the past ten years. The International Baccalaureate program was established to bring a higher quality of instruction and academic focus at the school, and has grown from 7 to 81 IB Diploma Candidates, with over 50% of students enrolled in pre-IB or IB classes. Recently, the Seattle Public Schools board adopted a new assignment plan which dropped yellow bus transportation to the school with students instead using King County Metro. This has had a huge effect on the students who enroll at the school, with a huge decrease in the percentage of Southeast Seattle residents in attendance. This has led to a slow demographic change at the school to be focused more on its own North End attendance area and surrounding communities such as Ballard, Queen Anne, Wedgwood, and Green Lake than it had been previously. In 2011, the district's highly capable/academically highly gifted students were allowed entry into a unique accelerated IB program (IBx), modeled on a similar program in Bellevue's school district, that has grown the popularity of the school both in and out of the program. As of the 2013-2014 year, students in the Highly Capable Cohort will account for about 18% of the school. The majority of the Highly Capable students come from the North End middle school pathway at Hamilton International Middle School and Jane Addams Middle School, making it logical to open Ingraham up to the Language Immersion pathway students who will have received up to eight years of instruction in their language (either Spanish or Japanese), entering 9th Grade at Level 3 or 4 of high school instruction. As of 2016, according to Seattle Public Schools enrollment guidelines, HCC students are not automatically granted admission to the IBx program, and are admitted subject to space availability. Once students complete IBx they may graduate early, take additional classes, or perform an internship or study abroad. All students may take IB classes, however, enrollment for a full 2 years and completion of requisite tests is required for achievement of the full IB diploma, which is recognized by colleges and universities around the world.

Clubs and organizations

Rocket Club

Formed during the 2006–07 school year, the club designs and builds model rockets. Recently, the team gained attention when they qualified to compete in the 2008 Team America Rocketry Challenge national competition, making the front page of the 'Seattle' section of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.^[5][6] The team eventually placed 29th in the competition.^[7] The rocket club's success in the TARC challenge in 2009 and 2010 earned them the right to participate in NASA's Student Launch Projects. The school fielded one team (Project Rainier) in 2009-10, and two teams (Projects Adams and Olympus) in 2010-11.^[8] In 2015, the rocket club, having shrunk to two teams, sent both teams (Delta and Foxtrot) to TARC nationals, where Foxtrot placed 3rd and Delta 21st.^[9]

Notable alumni

• Jay Inslee, Current Washington Governor
• David Horsey, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in editorial cartooning
• Chuck Jackson, Former MLB player (Houston Astros, Texas Rangers)
• Ken Phelps, baseball player
• Tim Paterson, programmer, original author of MS-DOS
• Bob Reynolds, Former MLB player (Montreal Expos, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers)
• Greg Lewis, All American Football Player at the University of Washington, Drafted by and played for the Denver Broncos of the NFL
• John Urquhart, Current King County Sheriff

References

External links

• Ingraham High School website
• IHS information from GreatSchools.net

Coordinates: 47°43′33″N 122°20′16″W / 47.72583°N 122.33778°W / 47.72583; -122.33778