| K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 41 | 37 | 30 | 33 | 40 | 46 | 25 | 50 | 27 | 38 | 29 | 34 |
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25 school year, as reported to the WA State Board of Education.
Source: the school's own tuition page · aid page, observed 2026-07-03. Tuition changes annually, verify before applying.
NCES Private School Universe Survey, 2021-22 (the most recent federal collection). Private-school demographics are reported biennially and lag public-school data.
Known results compiled from public competition listings (National Merit press lists, tournament PDFs, The Blue Alliance). A missing result is not evidence of absence.
Independent school in University Place (Tacoma) · PK–12 · 556 students including 79 pre-K (WA State Board of Education, 2024-25) · nonsectarian coed day school on 107 wooded acres, accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS)
Charles Wright asks South Sound families to hold two truths at once. The product remains a strong secular college-prep offering. The school holds a College Board Platinum Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Roll curriculum, with 96% of 2023-24 seniors sitting at least one AP exam and 88% passing. Upper School classes average eleven students, the Knowledge Bowl program has fourteen state championships in its history, and tuition is genuinely all-inclusive, folding in laptops, textbooks, and even the 8th-grade Puerto Rico trip. The institution around that product, though, just came through the roughest stretch in its history. A head of school departed in July 2024 amid a governance breakdown the board formally apologized for that October, the interim head died unexpectedly that fall, and fiscal 2024 closed with an operating deficit of nearly $4.5 million on $20.8 million of revenue. Insider Rachel Rippl now holds the permanent headship and the balance sheet carries $63 million in net assets, so this reads as a recovery story rather than a collapse. Still, at $38,115 for Upper School in 2026-27, families are entitled to look hard at the recovery before funding it.
Researched 2026-07-04. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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