DID YOU KNOW?
Over a five-year period, students’ SAT scores averaged 1,260 points compared to the national average of 1,000 points.
Typically, 20 percent of a Charles Wright graduating class are National Merit Scholars or Commended Students.
Charles Wright offers more Advanced Placement courses – the equivalent of college courses – than any other high school in the South Puget Sound area.
Minority students account for 28 percent of the student body.
In the last decade, Charles Wright students consistently earned top honors among the State of Washington’s journalism students.
Charles Wright grants over $1.3 million in financial assistance to 21% of the student body.
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Candy Anderson
Lower School Art
Candyce Anderson, better known to everyone in the Charles Wright community as “Miz Candy,” teaches art in the Lower School. “I hope my students enjoy learning to see and think like an artist and always remember to use their ‘art eyes’ to see the possibilities, not just the facts,” says Anderson. “I love it when parents share stories with me of how their children have chided them for not using their ‘art eyes.’”
Her favorite art projects with students are making pysanky (Ukrainian eggs), papier machéÂÂ, printmaking, metal embossing and sculpting.
Anderson was a National Merit Scholar and attended the University of Puget Sound. “My first degree in college was in biology. I was actually pre-med,” she explains. “My mother was an artist and my father is an engineer, hence I’ve got a pretty good balance of right brain/left brain stuff.”
Anderson went on to earn her masters in fine arts in ceramics, also from UPS. She joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 1976. During her tenure she has served as a faculty representative to the Board of Trustees, led outdoor education groups, volunteered with the auction and rummage sale, and served as a tech assistant in the Computer Department.
In 1995, the CWA Parent Association dedicated its Drizzle Dazzle auction to Anderson because of her years of enthusiastic involvement, from orchestrating student projects that became priceless works of art to transforming the Tarrier Dome with displays and decorations for a magical evening of fundraising. In 2003, she received the Inspirational Faculty Award.
Anderson volunteers at the Children’s Museum of Tacoma and Tacoma Art Museum. She is the newsletter editor for Northwest Designer Craftsmen. She enjoys sea kayaking and once spent a month backpacking and sailing in the Galapagos Islands. As a professional artist, she enjoys a wide variety of mediums including welding, gathering rocks for sculptures and other aesthetic and therapeutic purposes, various Handy Candy design projects, trashcan treasure hunting and creating all sorts of things on her trusty Mac.
Anderson also likes restoring old houses. Her Abyssinian cat, Abu, thinks he’s a dog and goes just about everywhere with her, even taking the boat to Camp Candy, her cabin on Desolation Sound in Canada. “I have been rescuing it from the ruins, without electricity, for the past 12 years,” she says. “I love a good challenge!”
Her favorite art projects with students are making pysanky (Ukrainian eggs), papier machéÂÂ, printmaking, metal embossing and sculpting.
Anderson was a National Merit Scholar and attended the University of Puget Sound. “My first degree in college was in biology. I was actually pre-med,” she explains. “My mother was an artist and my father is an engineer, hence I’ve got a pretty good balance of right brain/left brain stuff.”
Anderson went on to earn her masters in fine arts in ceramics, also from UPS. She joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 1976. During her tenure she has served as a faculty representative to the Board of Trustees, led outdoor education groups, volunteered with the auction and rummage sale, and served as a tech assistant in the Computer Department.
In 1995, the CWA Parent Association dedicated its Drizzle Dazzle auction to Anderson because of her years of enthusiastic involvement, from orchestrating student projects that became priceless works of art to transforming the Tarrier Dome with displays and decorations for a magical evening of fundraising. In 2003, she received the Inspirational Faculty Award.
Anderson volunteers at the Children’s Museum of Tacoma and Tacoma Art Museum. She is the newsletter editor for Northwest Designer Craftsmen. She enjoys sea kayaking and once spent a month backpacking and sailing in the Galapagos Islands. As a professional artist, she enjoys a wide variety of mediums including welding, gathering rocks for sculptures and other aesthetic and therapeutic purposes, various Handy Candy design projects, trashcan treasure hunting and creating all sorts of things on her trusty Mac.
Anderson also likes restoring old houses. Her Abyssinian cat, Abu, thinks he’s a dog and goes just about everywhere with her, even taking the boat to Camp Candy, her cabin on Desolation Sound in Canada. “I have been rescuing it from the ruins, without electricity, for the past 12 years,” she says. “I love a good challenge!”
