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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Mike Moffitt
Chaplain
Mike Moffitt is Charles Wright’s chaplain. He teaches Lower School students about virtues like tolerance, humility and reverence. He teaches Upper School students to play the guitar and about the religious ethics of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. “I love to hear about people’s experiences of religion and spirituality, or lack thereof, and share about my own,” says Moffitt. “It was a long process by which I came to understand my life as a dynamic interaction with God in Jesus Christ, and how that dynamic interaction became so powerful as to impel unalterable changes in my life.”
In addition to his wide-ranging responsibilities as chaplain, Moffitt has been involved with the theatre program, advising the drama department’s tech crew, directing a faculty one-act, and working with the pit for the winter musical. He has also co-led sophomore outdoor education and Upper School Winterim groups. “One of my favorite experiences at Charles Wright was leading a group of Upper School students on a Winterim trip to southern Louisiana to help in the rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Rita. It was such a blessing to see the students’ expanding knowledge of the richness of our country, as well as experience the joy of hard work done in loving service,” say Moffitt. “There were a lot of muddy smiles that week!”
Before joining the faculty at Charles Wright in 2005, he worked as a professional actor with the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, and then at both a Youth for Christ drop-in center and a Presbyterian Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland. “My house was about 20 feet from a ‘peace line,’ a wall constructed by the city to separate Loyalist and Republican neighborhoods. After several broken windows, a few nail bomb explosions outside my bedroom, and the annual July violence, I decided the wall wasn’t doing much good. I have a lot of stories from that year and was deeply humbled as I learned about the culture of Northern Ireland.”
Moffitt holds a bachelors degree in theater and acting from Southern Methodist University and a masters in divinity from Regent College in British Columbia. He is also responsible for organizing many events and community service opportunities for the entire Charles Wright community, including the Chapel Home project, blood drives, the
holiday assembly, the Christmas Eve service, and Baccalaureate. Moffitt has many hobbies including playing as many instruments as he can get his hands on, acting in local theater productions, running marathons, hiking, camping, playing tennis and racquetball, and cheering alongside his wife, Katie, for the Mariners, Seahawks, Broncos and Cougs.
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In addition to his wide-ranging responsibilities as chaplain, Moffitt has been involved with the theatre program, advising the drama department’s tech crew, directing a faculty one-act, and working with the pit for the winter musical. He has also co-led sophomore outdoor education and Upper School Winterim groups. “One of my favorite experiences at Charles Wright was leading a group of Upper School students on a Winterim trip to southern Louisiana to help in the rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Rita. It was such a blessing to see the students’ expanding knowledge of the richness of our country, as well as experience the joy of hard work done in loving service,” say Moffitt. “There were a lot of muddy smiles that week!” Before joining the faculty at Charles Wright in 2005, he worked as a professional actor with the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, and then at both a Youth for Christ drop-in center and a Presbyterian Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland. “My house was about 20 feet from a ‘peace line,’ a wall constructed by the city to separate Loyalist and Republican neighborhoods. After several broken windows, a few nail bomb explosions outside my bedroom, and the annual July violence, I decided the wall wasn’t doing much good. I have a lot of stories from that year and was deeply humbled as I learned about the culture of Northern Ireland.”
Moffitt holds a bachelors degree in theater and acting from Southern Methodist University and a masters in divinity from Regent College in British Columbia. He is also responsible for organizing many events and community service opportunities for the entire Charles Wright community, including the Chapel Home project, blood drives, the
holiday assembly, the Christmas Eve service, and Baccalaureate. Moffitt has many hobbies including playing as many instruments as he can get his hands on, acting in local theater productions, running marathons, hiking, camping, playing tennis and racquetball, and cheering alongside his wife, Katie, for the Mariners, Seahawks, Broncos and Cougs.
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