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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Creighton King
Upper School English, English Dept Chair
Creighton King teaches English in the Upper School. “Charles Wright is an amazing institution,” says King. “This is a place where everyone gets to learn how it feels to be honest and free and kind and loving and brave with each succeeding moment.” King also serves as chair of the English department.
King is currently writing a memoir. “My book is a memoir that traces my obsession with extreme skiing and extreme running all the way back to my brother's death from a cave-in when I was 14,” he explains. “Nine years after that tragic event, I was buried alive myself in an avalanche, but my friends, who'd triggered the slide onto me, dug me out.”
King’s countless adventures and mishaps, and the occasional catastrophe, included running 120 miles a week for five years, winning the Pikes Peak Marathon twice, setting a record running up and down the Grand Teton, and running the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim (41.2 miles) five times.
King graduated from the University of Utah and taught in both public and independent schools for nearly 15 years before he joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2004. Before beginning his teaching career he drove a taxi in New York City, picked apples in Tonasket, roughnecked on an oil rig, worked as a radio dispatcher for the Alta Marshal's Office, taught running clinics to teenagers, saw the Grateful Dead over 50 times, and fell in love more times than he can remember.
“My love of literature, writing, running, anthropology and philosophy is exceeded only by my love of teaching,” says King. “During high school, a young person's mind really begins to expand into its own possibilities and students really begin to develop a self-awareness of being truly one-of-a-kind."
Visit his web page
Read his commencement address to the class of 2007
King is currently writing a memoir. “My book is a memoir that traces my obsession with extreme skiing and extreme running all the way back to my brother's death from a cave-in when I was 14,” he explains. “Nine years after that tragic event, I was buried alive myself in an avalanche, but my friends, who'd triggered the slide onto me, dug me out.” King’s countless adventures and mishaps, and the occasional catastrophe, included running 120 miles a week for five years, winning the Pikes Peak Marathon twice, setting a record running up and down the Grand Teton, and running the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim (41.2 miles) five times.
King graduated from the University of Utah and taught in both public and independent schools for nearly 15 years before he joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2004. Before beginning his teaching career he drove a taxi in New York City, picked apples in Tonasket, roughnecked on an oil rig, worked as a radio dispatcher for the Alta Marshal's Office, taught running clinics to teenagers, saw the Grateful Dead over 50 times, and fell in love more times than he can remember.
“My love of literature, writing, running, anthropology and philosophy is exceeded only by my love of teaching,” says King. “During high school, a young person's mind really begins to expand into its own possibilities and students really begin to develop a self-awareness of being truly one-of-a-kind."
Visit his web page
Read his commencement address to the class of 2007
