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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Marc Janes
Director of College Counseling
Marc Janes is the director of college counseling. “Charles Wright has a way of helping people, both kids and grownups, grow into their best selves,” says Janes.
“As teachers, we get to observe, listen to, interact with, and occasionally touch the hearts, minds, and funny-bones of remarkable young adults. To see them wobble, stretch, explore, discover and grow – sometimes in nearly miraculous ways – is a privilege and a joy. How much more fun can a person have coming to work each day?”
Janes graduated from Yale University and went on to earn his masters degree in education at Antioch University in Seattle. He joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 1986. He has taught math and English here and served as head of the Lower School.
Janes has done volunteer work with Nativity House and the Mt. Tahoma Trails Association Ski Patrol. He enjoys camping, kayaking, fly fishing and playing Dixieland banjo. He has run the Portland Martathon, climbed Mount Rainier in "heels (or crampons, actually)”, and survived capsizing several kayaks with retired CWA teacher and alum John Long.
Visit his web page
Read his May 2008 guest column in the Peninsula Gateway: Forget preparing for college, prepare for life
“As teachers, we get to observe, listen to, interact with, and occasionally touch the hearts, minds, and funny-bones of remarkable young adults. To see them wobble, stretch, explore, discover and grow – sometimes in nearly miraculous ways – is a privilege and a joy. How much more fun can a person have coming to work each day?”
Janes graduated from Yale University and went on to earn his masters degree in education at Antioch University in Seattle. He joined the faculty of Charles Wright in 1986. He has taught math and English here and served as head of the Lower School.
Janes has done volunteer work with Nativity House and the Mt. Tahoma Trails Association Ski Patrol. He enjoys camping, kayaking, fly fishing and playing Dixieland banjo. He has run the Portland Martathon, climbed Mount Rainier in "heels (or crampons, actually)”, and survived capsizing several kayaks with retired CWA teacher and alum John Long.
Visit his web page
Read his May 2008 guest column in the Peninsula Gateway: Forget preparing for college, prepare for life
