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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Catherine Grider
Beginning School
Catherine Grider teaches in the Beginning School and finds that Charles Wright’s pre-k through 12th grade campus creates unique opportunities for her class to do activities with other students not only in the Lower School, but also in the Middle and Upper Schools.
Every Thursday her students meet with their third grade buddies. The annual field trip to the pumpkin patch is guided by eighth graders and pumpkin carving is assisted by fifth graders. The Upper School drama class does skits for the students. Grider’s students develop friends and mentors all across campus and are immediately part of the Charles Wright community.
Grider holds a bachelors degree from Pacific Lutheran University and a masters from City University. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 2000 after teaching kindergarten through second grade for 10 years at Tillicum Elementary in Lakewood.
“I love the moment when one of our young students realizes that by saying sounds together they can create a word. By creating words, they can read.” she says. Outside of school, Grider enjoys baking, boating, skiing and spending time with her family.
Every Thursday her students meet with their third grade buddies. The annual field trip to the pumpkin patch is guided by eighth graders and pumpkin carving is assisted by fifth graders. The Upper School drama class does skits for the students. Grider’s students develop friends and mentors all across campus and are immediately part of the Charles Wright community.
Grider holds a bachelors degree from Pacific Lutheran University and a masters from City University. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 2000 after teaching kindergarten through second grade for 10 years at Tillicum Elementary in Lakewood.
“I love the moment when one of our young students realizes that by saying sounds together they can create a word. By creating words, they can read.” she says. Outside of school, Grider enjoys baking, boating, skiing and spending time with her family.
