Lincoln High School (Seattle, Washington)

Cascadia Elementary School (Abraham Lincoln High School)
North side of building in 2007
Location
4400 Interlake Ave N Seattle, Washington
Information
Type	Public
Established	1907
Status	In-Use (as Cascadia Elementary; High School planned to reopen in 2019)
Closed	1981
School district	Seattle Public Schools
Grades	10–12   (1907–1971)   9–12   (1971–1981)
Enrollment	900 max as elementary, 2,800 at peak (1950s)
Color(s)	Crimson and black
Mascot	Lynx
Newspaper	The Lincoln Totem
Yearbook	Totem
Website	Lincoln building

4400 Interlake Ave N

Abraham Lincoln shortened to 'Lincoln' is a former public high school in Seattle, Washington, part of the Seattle Public Schools district. The voter approved Building Excellence (BEX IV) initiative of February 2013, is set to see Lincoln reopen as a Comprehensive High School in the Fall of 2019. Currently, the school houses the North Seattle site for the Highly Capable Cohort, known as Cascadia Elementary, for Seattle's academically highly gifted students. It is also the temporary home of an 18-21 transition program and Licton Springs K-8, an alternative school program.

The school was built in 1906 in the Wallingford neighborhood to handle the growth in the area. It opened in 1907 and until 1971 was a three-year high school, thereafter a four-year high school. Lincoln closed as a school in its own right in 1981, and the building has been used several times since as a temporary location for other Seattle schools as their own buildings underwent restoration. The Lincoln building housed Ballard High School in 1997–1999 while their current facility was being built, then the Latona Elementary School (1999–2000) and Bryant Elementary School (2000–2001) while their respective buildings were renovated. It next housed Roosevelt High School in 2004–2006 and Garfield High School in 2006–2008 while their respective buildings were being renovated and upgraded. September 2009 to June 2010, Lincoln was the home to the Hamilton International Middle School while the Hamilton building was renovated and housed the recently split APP North middle school cohort for one year with Hamilton in 2009-2010. McDonald Elementary occupied Lincoln during the 2010 and 2011 school years while their building was being renovated. Beginning in September 2011, the Lincoln building became the home of the elementary Highly Capable Cohort, for students who live in the north end of the city (including Queen Anne and Magnolia.) In September 2012, the site was renamed APP at Lincoln (now Cascadia Elementary) for the interim. Cascadia Elementary and the north-end Highly Capable Cohort will relocate to a newly constructed permanent location on the Wilson-Pacific campus in Fall of 2017. The building will then go under renovations and become an Attendance Area high school in 2019.