Grades 6–12 Phone +1 360-313-4600 Principal Lori Rotherham Number of students 599 (January 2016) | Founded 1996 Color Black White | |
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Type Public (magnet) span 6-12 Newspaper Wordsworth literary magazine Similar Vancouver School District, Hudson's Bay High School, Fort Vancouver High Sch, Columbia River High School, Lincoln Elementary School | ||
Re vancouver school of arts and academics
The Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (VSAA), located in Vancouver, Washington (Clark County) in the Vancouver Public Schools school district, is a public arts magnet school for grades 6 to 12. In addition to traditional academic studies, the school's curriculum involves in-depth elective study of the performing, literary, and visual arts, as well as film studies (called "moving image arts" at the school). For the 2008-2009 school year, they accepted nearly 100 6th graders.
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The lennon bus at vancouver school of arts and academics
History
The VSAA was established in 1996. The building originally housed Shumway junior high school.
Academics
Historically, the school has not just been an artist community; the academics instilled in the students have offered publicly visible results. According to the "2005 Report Card" published in Portland Monthly (September 2005), the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics was rated (within Vancouver Public Schools) with the best 2007-2008 graduation rate (100%), the best 2003-2004 Grade 10 WASL Reading (89), Writing (87) and Math (71) scores and ranks highly in the state on test scores also the lowest student/teacher ratio (13:1, respectively), and was the only school in Clark County serving grades 6 to 12.