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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Judy Herrington
Lower School Music
Judy Herrington teaches music in the Lower School. She is committed to the teaching of the artistic experience and process for young people.
“A moment I will always remember was in last year’s first grade class performance of the song ‘Walking in the Snow,’” says Herrington. “After the piano interlude, I looked up to see a little girl blinking. She said with wonder, ‘I have water in my eyes.’ She was baffled as to why she had tears in her eyes but she was very aware of being deeply touched by the power of music. It is inspiring to be part of an artistic experience for such a young child.”
“While teaching my classes of young students I am very aware of the exciting learning opportunities they will have as they move through the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. I see amazing potential, talent and energy, and I know these children will be inspired by the experiences they have and will have at Charles Wright.”
Herrington completed her undergraduate degree in music at the University of Oregon and her masters in teaching music at Lewis and Clark College. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1975. In 1991, she received the CWA Parent Association’s Inspirational Faculty Award.
Herrington is highly regarded as a guest conductor and as a workshop and choral clinician. In 1991, she founded the Tacoma Youth Chorus, a select, auditioned youth choir program. Well known through the Puget Sound area, TYC now serves over 240 musically gifted boys and girls, ages seven through eighteen. In 2008, Herrington will lead the TYC Chorale on a performance tour of Eastern Europe.
Herrington is a past-president of the Washington-American Choral Directors Association. She has conducted all-state honor choirs and festivals in Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Montana, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Tokyo. She was recently selected as the guest conductor for the 2008 Western American Choral Directors Association Junior High Honor Choir, a prestigious national recognition. She has published choral compositions and arrangements, and has co-authored choral teaching texts. She also edits a choral series.
“A moment I will always remember was in last year’s first grade class performance of the song ‘Walking in the Snow,’” says Herrington. “After the piano interlude, I looked up to see a little girl blinking. She said with wonder, ‘I have water in my eyes.’ She was baffled as to why she had tears in her eyes but she was very aware of being deeply touched by the power of music. It is inspiring to be part of an artistic experience for such a young child.” “While teaching my classes of young students I am very aware of the exciting learning opportunities they will have as they move through the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. I see amazing potential, talent and energy, and I know these children will be inspired by the experiences they have and will have at Charles Wright.”
Herrington completed her undergraduate degree in music at the University of Oregon and her masters in teaching music at Lewis and Clark College. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1975. In 1991, she received the CWA Parent Association’s Inspirational Faculty Award.
Herrington is highly regarded as a guest conductor and as a workshop and choral clinician. In 1991, she founded the Tacoma Youth Chorus, a select, auditioned youth choir program. Well known through the Puget Sound area, TYC now serves over 240 musically gifted boys and girls, ages seven through eighteen. In 2008, Herrington will lead the TYC Chorale on a performance tour of Eastern Europe.
Herrington is a past-president of the Washington-American Choral Directors Association. She has conducted all-state honor choirs and festivals in Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Montana, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Tokyo. She was recently selected as the guest conductor for the 2008 Western American Choral Directors Association Junior High Honor Choir, a prestigious national recognition. She has published choral compositions and arrangements, and has co-authored choral teaching texts. She also edits a choral series.
