Inclusive Community
We believe that an inclusive community embraces cultural agility, civic action, and a broad definition of human potential. Learn More
Know the Kid
Understanding each student at the individual level and navigating with them through their educational experience. Learn More
Culture of Performance
Students are challenged to take risks by combining disparate skills in moments of action. 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
Students need to communicate ahead of time that they are attending. All students who attend must have a current COVID-19 vaccination card on file.
Contact: Cathy Schick, Athletics Director
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Link to register for the PSIS School Fairs: http://
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Middle School Building, 1137 13th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122
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Activities during Community Time (9:25-10:10 AM) and lunch (11:35 AM - 12:25 PM).
Contact: Achijah Berry
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SAAS Gymnasium, 1111 13th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
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Currently Happening at SAAS
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Rachel attended Seattle Academy (SAAS) for her freshman through senior years and recently opened up about her battle with an eating disorder, one that has deeply impacted her life to this day.
Like in Rachel’s case, eating disorders commonly appear in the middle school, high school, and college years, though many individuals develop eating disorders later in life and often go untreated because of the stereotype that they only affect teens and young adults.
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October is Global Diversity Awareness Month. This month was created to celebrate and increase awareness around diversities of all kinds including cultures and ethnicities, genders, abilities, religions, and more. This month focuses on the positive impact diversity has on society.
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![Seattle Academy Kavi Dey '22 at the IEEE IROS 2021 Conference]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1632243602/seattleacademyorg/fblm8jeg51cmrkmswoy3/KaviDey22RoboticsArticleFeedPhoto470X246.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1632243602/seattleacademyorg/fblm8jeg51cmrkmswoy3/KaviDey22RoboticsArticleFeedPhoto470X246.png","width":470}])
Senior Kavi Dey has been on the Robotics team at Seattle Academy since his freshman year. Both in SAAS and outside of school, Kavi has contributed to some revolutionary ambitions within robotics. His latest project seeks to answer how robots can be used to assist people with disabilities. Kavi’s academic paper on “Cursor-based Robot Tele-manipulation through 2D-to-SE2 Interfaces" was recently accepted into the IEEE IROS 2021 Conference, an international conference on intelligent robots and systems.
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This coming Saturday, September 25, Alicia Mullikin, director of the SAAS dance department, invites you to join Dance Day at El Centro de la Raza, a community event produced by Seattle Parks and Recreation and EL SUEÑO (a company owned by Alicia)! Come move your feet to community dance classes, watch free performances in West African, Bollywood, Hip Hop, and Folklorico, and enjoy some Mexican sweets n’ treats!
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Seattle Academy’s SPARRC group (SAAS Parents for Awareness, Race Relations, and Community) did a bit of summer reading followed by a two-part discussion of Isabel Wilkerson’s acclaimed book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. In Caste, Wilkerson examines the people and history of America and how our country is shaped by social hierarchy and a hidden caste system.
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Morris Vasser, a Seattle Academy alumnus from the Class of 2020, is doing several cool things in the adventure sports community. He works as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Lead at Sweetlines, a mountain bike coaching organization. He is getting out onto trails and mentoring youth in mountain biking. He is advocating for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to take up mountain biking.