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.

No South Sound school, public or private, offers more Advanced Placement courses than we do. 

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.

Noel Blyler

Noel Blyler

Associate Director of College Counseling
Noel Blyler is CWA’s associate director of college counseling.  He works directly with students to help them find the college that is the best fit for them.  “I’m quite sure I have the best job at CWA,” he says.  “We have great kids here and I have great colleagues.”

Blyler graduated from St. John’s College and earned his Master’s degree at the University of Virginia.  He became the director of admissions and financial aid at CWA in 1999, moving to the development office in 2008 and college counseling in 2010.  During his tenure at the school he has also served as a hike leader for many eighth grade beach hikes and sophomore outdoor education trips.  

“I also play music with the Beginning Schoolers weekly and they think I’m a star,” says Blyler proudly.

Blyler’s hobbies include music, hiking, backpacking, fly-fishing, cooking, home brewing and reading.  In college he studied Ancient Greek and he can still recite the first few lines of the Iliad and the Gospel of John in the language in which they were written.