Charles Wright Academy

Tacoma, Washington

Charles Wright Academy is a small coeducational school offering students a college preparatory curriculum which includes an outstanding performing arts department. It is geared for students who want to better themselves and are willing to work hard to get there. Charles Wright students are respectful of the diversity of backgrounds and cultures represented here, making international students quickly feel welcomed at their new school. Its students leave well prepared for whatever future they can envision.

Charles Wright Upper School is a community of participants. Over eighty percent of CWA students participate on interscholastic sports teams, and the same students who are active in athletics sing in the choir, perform on stage, staff award-winning yearbook and newspaper, and join perennial powerhouse Knowledge Bowl academic competition team. No matter their interests, international students will be sure to find something they want to get involved in!

Small caring school offering strong academics where students enjoy to work hard – Welcome to Charles Wright Academy.

Academics

Charles Wright is a place where it is "cool" to work hard at excelling and where students actively engage in their academic studies. The school is small enough to ensure a student struggling does not "fall through the cracks." The Upper School’s four-year course of study is designed to create well-rounded, passionate, versatile, serious scholars capable of effective communication, sustained work, independent thought and original expression — while they’re having fun. The academic program recognizes and develops individual strengths while building competence in areas of weakness. The CWA philosophy of individually tailored education is emphasized and learning pace and schedule vary with each student. The Upper School program is crafted to introduce each student to a wide spectrum of scholastic endeavors while encouraging and inspiring in-depth studies in fields of major interest. Every student must complete carefully chosen core requirements to graduate, while adding elective courses of special interest or usefulness. CWA graduates go on to some of the best colleges and universities in the nation. College Acceptance Rate 100%.

Arts

Arts Choir, Guitar/Keyboarding, Improvisation & The Theatre, Jazz Ensemble, Music Composition, Small Vocal Ensemble, String Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Technical Theater, Advanced Art, Ceramics, Photography, Painting & Drawing, Printmaking

Location

Seattle is one of the most well known cities in the US. In the 1990’s the city became internationally famous for its music scene with a number of world famous bands with Pearl Jam as perhaps the most well known of them all. With an area population of close to two million Seattle is a highly desirable place to live even though the region has more than 200 rain days per year.

Tacoma is located less than an hour from downtown Seattle and has in itself grown to become known as a progressive, international city with a little more than 200,000 inhabitants living there. Sitting at the foot of Mount Rainer, Tacoma really has a lot to offer with ocean beaches along the 66 miles of shoreline many attractive parks, as well as a world-class zoo and aquarium.

Student Population:	Grades:	ESL Programs:
Co-educational	9-12	No

School Uniform	Teacher/Student Ratio:	Number of Students:
No	1:7	290

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Partial List of College and University Acceptances:

Agnes Scott, Arizona State,, Beloit, Boston C, Boston U, Bowdoin, Brandeis, Brown, Bucknell California Lutheran, California Polytechnic, Central Washington, Centre, Claremont McKenna, College of the Redwoods, Colorado College, Drexel, Duke, Emory, George Washington, Georgia Institute of Tech, Gonzaga, Gustavus Adolphus, Hamilton, Ithaca, Johns Hopkins, Kalamazoo, Lawrence, Lewis & Clark, Loyola Marymount, Loyola U Chicago, Marquette, Mass. Inst. Of Technology, Mount Holyoke, New York U, Northwestern, Northern Arizona, Occidental, Oregon State, Prescott, Rutgers, Saint Martin's, Saint Mary's C of California, Santa Clara, Seattle U, Skidmore, Smith, St. John's, St. Olaf, Stanford, Tufts, U of Arizona, U of British Columbia, U of California at Berkeley, U of California at Davis, U of California at Los Angeles, U of Chicago, U of Colorado, U of Denver, U of Idaho, U of Illinois, U of Miami, U of Montana, Missoula, U of Oregon, U of the Pacific, U of Portland, U of Puget Sound, U of Redlands, U of Richmond, U of Rochester, U of San Diego, U of San Francisco, U of Southern California, U of Texas, Austin, U of Washington, U of Washington, Tacoma, U of Wisconsin, Madison, US Air Force Academy, US Military Academy, Vassar, Villanova, Wake Forest, Washington State, Washington U in St. Louis, Western Washington, Williams, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.

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