Get to know SAAS
A dynamic community that challenges students 6th - 12th grade to contribute boldly. Apply Now! Learn more
Culture of Performance
Students are challenged to take risks by combining disparate skills in moments of action. Learn More
Know the Kid
Understanding each student at the individual level and navigating with them through their educational experience. Learn More
Inclusive Community
Fostering respect for human differences, growth of the individual, and diversity within the school community. Learn More
College and Life
We value curiosity and innovation, participation and excellence, and exploration and resolve. Learn More
SAAS Pillars
The core of our programmatic vision is the collection of student learning provided in our academics, arts, athletics, outdoor trips & travel and service experiences within a supportive diverse and inclusive community.
Academics
Seattle Academy’s mission of preparing students for college and life means our academics pair traditional areas of study with innovative curriculum, projects, and performances.
Arts
Since Seattle Academy was founded, the arts have played a central role in our school’s identity. We believe that every student is intrinsically creative.
Athletics
Seattle Academy Athletics offers an inclusive, no-cut program that invites students of all skill levels to participate in our team sports offerings. At the same time, we’re just as passionately committed to supporting excellence, fielding teams that operate at the highest level of competition or performance.
Outdoor & Travel
The Seattle Academy Outdoor & Travel Program provides opportunities for students to challenge themselves both physically and emotionally, to deepen relationships, and to develop a responsible understanding of cultures, people, and the lands through which they travel.
Service
The Seattle Academy Service Learning program helps prepare students to be engaged, reflective, and productive contributors in a changing world.
Inclusive Community
Seattle Academy welcomes and binds together a diverse independent school community - we believe that a diverse school community is essential to education. We therefore foster and encourage respect for human differences, growth of the individual, and diversity within the school population.
Community Voices
Our SAAS community is full of exciting stories about and opinions of our students, Alums, families and faculty/staff. Our voices reflect the inspiring impact of SAAS within our school, community and the world at large.
Centering BIPOC Voices
Current Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff
This past July, a group of current and former Seattle Academy students and Arts Faculty members Annalise Olson '09, Tom Flood, and Lily Hotchkiss came together with the goal of centering BIPOC voices through a student-led mural project.
Alicia Mullikin
Arts Dance Faculty
Alicia Mullikin, Seattle Academy dance teacher and choreographer, was recently featured on KCTS9 in an article written by Laila Kazmi. The article discusses Alicia’s attempts to open minds and challenge long-existing stereotypes of who can be a dancer.
Sophia Schloss
Class of 2021
Sophia Schloss ’21 stars in the title role of the new film Sadie. The film debuted at the SXSW Film Festival in mid-March and has been receiving raves reviews since then.
Lewis Greenstein
Class of 2017
Lewis Greenstein ‘17 won the teen category of the Future Engineers Mars Medical Challenge. Lewis first entered the competition in his Upper School Winter Innovations-Prototyping course with David Pynchon. In mid-March, his medical 3D digital Dual IV/Syringe pump object designed for an astronaut to use in space to maintain physical health on a 3-year journey to Mars was selected as a finalist.
Sam Schimmel
Class of 2018
Sam Schimmel ’18, Center for Native American Youth 2017 Champion for Change, hosted an Alaskan Native Youth roundtable discussion during the Alaska Federation of Natives Conference held last week in Anchorage, Alaska.
MacKenzie Caputo
Class of 2018
In cross country, MacKenzie not only set a school record but earned First-Team All-ECL honors and was named ECL Rookie of the Year. She qualified for the state meet, where she broke the school record set by Shayla Maupin ‘10 back in 2008. Mackenzie’s record time was 19.49.
Tess Barton
Class of 2019
Earlier this month, the Center for Infectious Disease Research announced that Seattle Academy junior Tess Barton will be one of just thirty-six applicants selected to participate in their nationally recognized, summer outreach program 2018 BioQuest Academy.
Sam Zivin
Class of 2019
Sam Zivin ’19 was recently featured in the online magazine Northwest in Motion. The profile discusses how Sam’s interest in cycling has grown and his recent accomplishments.
Gavriel Staloch
Class of 2018
Alumnus, Gavriel Staloch '18 highlighted on Geek Wire as their Geek of the Week as he builds his own brand and a business on Instagram.
Conner Pierce
Class of 2018
Alumnus, Conner Pierce '18 was named a 2018 US Paralympics Track & Field All American.
Upcoming SAAS Events
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Questons? Contact Aaron Lieberman or Halley Bock, 7th Grade Parent Representatives
Currently Happening at SAAS
![Photo of Seattle Academy Student Activism Art Projects Fall 2020]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1606777860/seattleacademyorg/foyyxhlyw20bhbxd8hj5/SeattleAcademyStudentActivismthroughAcademicsandArtFall2020.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1606777860/seattleacademyorg/foyyxhlyw20bhbxd8hj5/SeattleAcademyStudentActivismthroughAcademicsandArtFall2020.png","width":470}])
At Seattle Academy, we encourage our students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute boldly to a changing world. During the 2020-21 Fall Trimester, that was evident in our curriculum and instruction.
![United Nations Stand Up for Human Rights]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1606762276/seattleacademyorg/c2hpglk85djfgdljtsvx/hrd2020-social-card-en.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1606762276/seattleacademyorg/c2hpglk85djfgdljtsvx/hrd2020-social-card-en.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1606762276/seattleacademyorg/c2hpglk85djfgdljtsvx/hrd2020-social-card-en.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1606762276/seattleacademyorg/c2hpglk85djfgdljtsvx/hrd2020-social-card-en.jpg","width":1200}])
![Seattle Academy Fall 8th Grade Show 2020]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1606151946/seattleacademyorg/c0fyhnvmfpvp0cdp9r5x/SeattleAcademyFall8thGradeShow2020.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1606151946/seattleacademyorg/c0fyhnvmfpvp0cdp9r5x/SeattleAcademyFall8thGradeShow2020.png","width":470}])
This fall, Seattle Academy 8th graders collaborated remotely to produce Help Desk: A-Stay-At-Home Play, by Don Zolidis. Presented on November 12, this was the first 8th grade show rehearsed and performed entirely on Zoom – quite a different venue from our Black Box Theatre on the SAAS campus.
Twenty student actors prepared ten scenes from this new comedy written specifically for remote production. Directed by Michael Cruz (Performing Arts Chair), and coached by new faculty member, Ty Greenwood (Rhetoric), students worked together online in break-out rooms to learn and perform two and three-person scenes depicting funny and even absurd Help Desk calls.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Ben Sievers '18 Social Justice Award 2020]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1605805340/seattleacademyorg/ffsrcp0zypcl83okkduz/SeattleAcademyBenSievers18SocialJusticeAward2020.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1605805340/seattleacademyorg/ffsrcp0zypcl83okkduz/SeattleAcademyBenSievers18SocialJusticeAward2020.png","width":470}])
In a recent effort to support productive discussion, analysis, and activism in the fight for racial justice, Pitzer College, a nationally top-ranked undergraduate liberal arts and sciences institution, created a Racial Justice Initiative. Seattle Academy is proud to congratulate our very own Ben Sievers ’18 on receiving the award.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Visual Arts]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1605211649/seattleacademyorg/ow9btxxq8ilqzyu04kvw/SeattleAcademyFRosati15.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1605211649/seattleacademyorg/ow9btxxq8ilqzyu04kvw/SeattleAcademyFRosati15.png","width":470}])
Among this year’s new faculty, Seattle Academy welcomes back Francesca Rosati ’15. After SAAS, Francesca attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and in 2019, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting with a minor in art history. Francesca went on to complete RISD’s Master of Arts in Teaching. This intensive, one-year program prepares artists and designers for teacher certification in arts education for students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. We are pleased to have Francesca at SAAS teaching Visual Arts for 6th grade and Beginning Studio Arts open to students in grades 9 through 12.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Middle School Virtual Pumpkin Carving Contest October 2020]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1604612681/seattleacademyorg/s2d00sofdctvbo6ulnsb/SeattleAcademyMiddleSchoolVirtualPumpkinCarvingContestOctober2020.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1604612681/seattleacademyorg/s2d00sofdctvbo6ulnsb/SeattleAcademyMiddleSchoolVirtualPumpkinCarvingContestOctober2020.png","width":470}])
Halloween shifted in 2020, due to the pandemic and social distancing. On Friday, October 30, Seattle Academy’s Upper and Middle School Coordinators and the Parent Association partnered together to bring Halloween fun to our students on Zoom. Middle School students enjoyed a virtual pumpkin carving contest sponsored by the Parent Association and facilitated by coordinators.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Parent Education Event October 2020 Panel Recap]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1604532292/seattleacademyorg/ivddrpuugkrmjad2tr6x/SeattleAcademyParentEducationEventOctober2020Recap.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1604532292/seattleacademyorg/ivddrpuugkrmjad2tr6x/SeattleAcademyParentEducationEventOctober2020Recap.png","width":470}])
![Photo of Seattle Academy Celebrate Native American Heritage Month]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1604087177/seattleacademyorg/oxyz8ztivamqkyoyzegr/SeattleAcademyCelebrateNativeAmericanHeritageMonth.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1604087177/seattleacademyorg/oxyz8ztivamqkyoyzegr/SeattleAcademyCelebrateNativeAmericanHeritageMonth.png","width":470}])