Bishop Blanchet High School is a coed Catholic high school located just north of Green Lake in Seattle, Washington, United States. The school was founded in 1954 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, and named for the first bishop of the diocese, A.M.A. Blanchet (1797-1887). Originally named Blanchet High School, in 1999 the title Bishop was added to make the school easily identified as Catholic.
According to school records, Bishop Blanchet has 1,050 students, 79% of whom are Catholic. The school employs 73 teachers (including one Dominican sister), 69 of them full-time.
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