Editing Edmonds, Washington (section)

==Education==

Edmonds is wholly within the boundaries of the [[Edmonds School District]], which also serves Lynnwood, [[Mountlake Terrace, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]], and Woodway. The city is home to [[Edmonds Woodway High School]], of the district's five high schools, which was formed in 1990 after the merger of Edmonds and Woodway and moved in 1998 to a new campus east of the city.<ref>{{cite news |last=Montgomery |first=Nancy |date=September 3, 1998 |title=High praise for new Edmonds high school |page=B1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ramirez |first=Marc |date=June 7, 1991 |title=Merger word rarely heard in school |page=D1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The high school has 1,800 students and hosts an [[IB Diploma Programme]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Long |first=Katherine |date=June 15, 2010 |title=5 Bellevue high schools on Newsweek's top 100 list |url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2012115066_newsweeklist15m.html |work=The Seattle Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630105446/http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2012115066_newsweeklist15m.html |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Orsini-Meinhard |first=Kirsten |date=June 20, 2007 |title=Edmonds-Woodway: A warrior for students retires |page=H10 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The school district also operates an [[alternative high school]], [[Scriber Lake High School|Scriber Lake]], two K–8 schools, five [[elementary school]]s, and two combined elementary–middle schools within Edmonds city limits.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 2013 |title=Edmonds School District&nbsp;— Elementary Boundary Map, 2013–2014 |url=https://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_306670/File/Departments/Transportation/Elementary%20School%20Boundary%20Map/Map%20elem%20boundaries%20w%20school%20list%2013-14.pdf |publisher=[[Edmonds School District]] |access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref>

Edmonds is located near the campus of [[Edmonds College]], which actually lies within Lynnwood city limits.<ref>{{cite news |last=Clutter |first=Stephen |date=May 29, 1997 |title=No waterfront, but there sure is an Edmonds fair |page=B2 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The city was formerly home to the private [[Puget Sound Christian College]], which operated from 1977 to 2001 at the former Edmonds High School building (now the Edmonds Center for the Arts).<ref>{{cite news |last=Burkitt |first=Janet |date=March 7, 2002 |title=Puget Sound Christian College sells Edmonds site |page=B3 |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20020307/pscc07m/puget-sound-christian-college-sells-edmonds-site |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Diane |date=October 12, 2005 |title=Old Edmonds High: a place of learning for 9 decades |page=H17 |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20051012/schooltimeline12n/old-edmonds-high-a-place-of-learning-for-9-decades |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref> Edmonds is also home to several [[private school]]s, which accommodate grade levels from preschool to high school.<ref>{{cite web |title=Private School Universe Survey |url=https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&State=53&City=Edmonds |publisher=[[National Center for Education Statistics]] |access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref>