Mountlake Terrace High School

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'Mountlake Terrace High School'
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Motto	"To be, not to seem."^{[citation needed]}
Established
School type	Public Secondary School
District	Edmonds School District
Grade levels	9, 10, 11, 12
Principal	Greg Schwab
Location	Mountlake Terrace, Washington, USA
Campus	Suburban,
Enrollment	1691
Faculty
Mascot	Hawk
Colors	Silver & Scarlet & Black & White
Homepage	http://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/mths/

Mountlake Terrace High School is one of the five high schools in the Edmonds School District. The school serves 1691 students in grades 9 through 12. The current Principal is Greg Schwab, aided by Assistant Principals Diane Lashinsky and David Tadlock. The school's official mascot is the Hawk. Its official colors are silver on scarlet.

The school received attention when it became the first suburban High School in the nation to adopt the experimental Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Small Schools project. To comply, in September of 2003 the school reorganized under five "small schools," each with a different emphasis: the Terrace Arts and Academics School, the Discovery School, the Innovation School, the Renaissance School and the Achievement, Opportunities and Service Community. The school received a $833,000 grant in return for their participation. The effort has been met with mixed reactions.^[1]

In 2006, 85% of students passed the Reading portion of the WASL exam, 84% passed the Writing portion, 56% passed the Math portion, and 38% passed the Science portion. Only 50% passed all three portions of the exam, which was actually a dramatic 11 point improvement from 2005. About 69% of students graduate on time.^[2]

The school is also known for its high-performing basketball team, student newspaper, student run television studio and jazz band, the latter of which travelled to New York in 2005 and placed third in the Essentially Ellington competition^[3].