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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Kevin Kane
Upper School Spanish, Language Dept Chair
Kevin Kane teaches Spanish in the Upper School. “Without speaking a word of Spanish and with the confidence and naivety that only a teenager can have, I got on the plane to Bolivia a month after my high school graduation,” recalls Kane.
“I lived with a non-English speaking family and attended a Bolivian high school. By the end of the year I was speaking Spanish fluently. A friend’s aunt stopped by to thank me, much to my surprise. ‘Not all students learn Spanish like you did this year,’ she said. ‘You took the time and effort to really learn about us. It shows me that we matter to you and I appreciate that.’ This brief conversation guided me throughout my teaching career as one of the most important reasons to learn another language. The personal side of language is where the communication happens.”
Kane graduated from Bates College in Maine and earned his masters degree at Middlebury College in Vermont. He joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2002 after teaching at the high school and college levels in New York and New Jersey. He serves as the chair of the foreign languages department and coaches golf.
“One of the aspects of CWA that struck me from the very first day was the incredible support each student receives for his or her accomplishments, no matter the arena,” says Kane. “Be it athletics, arts or the chess club, student achievement is lauded. It’s a great aspect of the school.”
Sports such as skiing, soccer and golf are Kane’s major past times. He spent two years in Austria as a ski-bum, greatly improving his German. “I love to read and find nothing more rejuvenating than laying in a hammock and reading away a summer afternoon,” says Kane. He also does The New York Times crossword puzzle daily.
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“I lived with a non-English speaking family and attended a Bolivian high school. By the end of the year I was speaking Spanish fluently. A friend’s aunt stopped by to thank me, much to my surprise. ‘Not all students learn Spanish like you did this year,’ she said. ‘You took the time and effort to really learn about us. It shows me that we matter to you and I appreciate that.’ This brief conversation guided me throughout my teaching career as one of the most important reasons to learn another language. The personal side of language is where the communication happens.” Kane graduated from Bates College in Maine and earned his masters degree at Middlebury College in Vermont. He joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 2002 after teaching at the high school and college levels in New York and New Jersey. He serves as the chair of the foreign languages department and coaches golf.
“One of the aspects of CWA that struck me from the very first day was the incredible support each student receives for his or her accomplishments, no matter the arena,” says Kane. “Be it athletics, arts or the chess club, student achievement is lauded. It’s a great aspect of the school.”
Sports such as skiing, soccer and golf are Kane’s major past times. He spent two years in Austria as a ski-bum, greatly improving his German. “I love to read and find nothing more rejuvenating than laying in a hammock and reading away a summer afternoon,” says Kane. He also does The New York Times crossword puzzle daily.
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