North Creek High School

North Creek High School opened for grades 9 through 11 in the fall of 2017.^[3] Due to inconvenient boundary changes, seniors were not enrolled until fall of 2018.^[4] NCHS is one of four general high schools in Northshore School District, alongside Bothell High School, Woodinville High School and Inglemoor High School.^[5] North Creek High School offers Advanced Placement classes^[6] as well as many clubs and sports.^[7][8]

In 2012, Northshore School District decided they would build a new high school - North Creek High School - due to overflow and continuous increase of students in the school district.^[9] Before NCHS opened, several students and staff members were part of a committee, where they made critical decisions for the school. These decisions include: the mascot and the school colors.^[10] Majority of the staff hired at NCHS were from various schools in Northshore school district, with the intention of "creat[ing] a family of teachers from a group of strangers.”^[4] Eric McDowell, the principal, had several ideas for NCHS, far before the school opened.^[4][11] These ideas include every student graduating, every student personally knowing at least one staff member, student collaboration, and becoming the best high school in America.^[4][11]

Completed in 2016, North Creek High School was designed by Dykeman Architecture.^[12] NCHS began its first academic year fall of 2017.^[13] The campus covers 61-acres, with a 250,000-square-foot facility.^[13] The school was built with three, two story buildings that included and facilitated STEM classrooms and flexible learning areas.^[13] As well, the buildings held a common area, gymnasium, cafeteria, and a performing arts center. Other features of the school include athletic fields, parking, and landscaping as well as wet lands and rain gardens. Construction also featured a wall-to-wall tension grid system and a versatile retractable seating system.^[14] The projects main goal was to create a facility with a "deep green" design in order to foster a sustainable school.^[12][15] The large project required a heavy amount of logging and earthwork activities. With this sustainability goal in mind the school was built using sustainably sourced materials and kept in mind water and energy conservation. Other aspects of the sustainable project included an energy saving geothermal heat recovery system, a site harvested wood program, and 100 kW photo-voltaic array.^[16] Additionally, all the trees that were cut down during construction were integrated into the design and construction of the school.^[17] Generally speaking, NCHS found many ways to help minimize their carbon footprint.^[12] The main buildings have wide hallways with tables, couches, and collaboration cubes.^[18] Classrooms have sliding glass walls, that are bullet resistant.^[19] NCHS's unique architecture was designed to increase collaboration and group work amongst students - making several spaces on campus suitable for learning.^[10]

Student enrollment for one random school year was 1,781.

North Creek High School has a wide variety of sports teams that participate during fall, winter, and spring as well as year-round.

Fall sports offered include crew, cross country, soccer, softball (slow pitch), swim & dive, and volleyball for girls. Boys sports offered include crew, cross country, football, golf, tennis, and water polo

Winter sports offered include basketball, gymnastics, wrestling, and unified bowling for girls. Boys sports offered include basketball, swim & dive, wrestling, and unified bowling.

Spring sports offered include badminton, crew, golf, soft-ball (fast pitch), tennis, track & field, unified soccer, and water polo for girls. Boys sports offered include baseball, crew, lacrosse, soccer, track & field, and unified soccer.

In addition co-ed cheer is offered year round.^[21]