Garfield High School (WA)

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James A. Garfield High School is a public high school in the Seattle Public Schools district of Seattle, Washington, USA. It is known for its outstanding academic and arts programs, and for its high degree of cultural diversity.

Located along 23rd Avenue between E. Alder and E. Jefferson Streets in Seattle's urban Central District, Garfield draws students from all over the city. Garfield is also known as the magnet school for the school district's Accelerated Progress Program for especially gifted students. As a result it has many college level classes for students to take ranging from calculus-based physics to Advanced Placement studio art.

Garfield basketball teams have won many regional and state titles, including a stretch of twelve years under coach Al Hairston from 1980 to 1991 during which time the Bulldogs won five Class AAA titles, eight Seattle Metro League championships, qualified for the state tournament nine times, and won the state tournament five times. The boys' basketball team has been state champions a total of eleven times and runner-up five times since 1949. Both the girls' and boys' teams were state champions in 1980 and 1987. More recently, the girls' team was runner-up in 2004 and state champions in 2005 under former Garfield star Joyce Walker, who played on the 1980 championship team.

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