Culture of Performance
Students are challenged to take risks by combining disparate skills in moments of action. Learn More
Participation and Excellence
Championship teams. A no-cut policy. The best of both worlds.Learn More
Talents Born, Made & Discovered
Offering a safe environment for experimentation with opportunity to challenge rigid boundaries for what is possible. Learn More
Know the Kid
Understanding each student at the individual level and navigating with them through their educational experience. Learn More
Diverse & Inclusive Community
Fostering respect for human differences, growth of the individual, and diversity within the school community. 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.
Dynamic & 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.
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.
Lewis Maday-Travis
Middle School Science Faculty
Lewis Maday-Travis was featured on KUOW. The article discusses how Lewis, who teaches Middle School science here at Seattle Academy, came out to his students as transgender and how being able to be himself makes him a better teacher.
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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SAAS STREAM Building, 1220 E Spring, Seattle, WA 98122
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Hosted by Nancy Connolly and Lauren Gundlach, 7006 43rd NE, Seattle, WA 98115
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SAAS Middle School Building, 1137 13th Avenue, Seattle, 98122
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SAAS Arts Center, 1100 12th Avenue, Seattle, 98122
We hope you can join us for a screening of the film "Sadie" starting Sophia Schloss '21. The screening will be followed with a question and answer period with the director and cast of the film.
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SAAS Middle School Building, 1137 13th Avenue, Seattle, 98122
Join us for an interactive evening of information sharing with community expert, Jo Langford M.A., and SAAS faculty and staff, including Assistant Head of School - Middle School, Mike Haykin, Middle School Counselor Jen Nelson, and Middle School health teachers. The presentation will be followed with a short questions and answer session, finishing the evening with small-grade level parent discussions.
The information and discussions will focus on helping your children learn to develop healthy relationships and make healthy choices in the context of social media, problem solving, and resource sharing, .
This program is hosted in partnership with the the Parent Association's Parent Education Committee and the SAAS Middle School faculty and staff.
*SEL: Social Emotional Learning
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Hosted by Anne Schopf and Jack Kearney, 2002 Eastlake Ave. E, Seattle, 98102
Cocktail Party
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Food Lifeline Hunger Solution Center, 815 S 96th St Seattle, WA 98108
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Sacajawea Playfield, 1726 NE 94th St., Seattle, WA 98115
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Food Lifeline Hunger Solution Center, 815 S 96th St Seattle, WA 98108
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Seattle Academy 14th Avenue Parking Lot (14th and E Columbia)
Currently Happening at SAAS
![Photo of Seattle Academy Melinda Mueller in Zambia]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1552678051/seattleacademyorg/nvxesi1u02oguctt4hha/SeattleAcademyMelindaMueller.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1552678051/seattleacademyorg/nvxesi1u02oguctt4hha/SeattleAcademyMelindaMueller.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1552678051/seattleacademyorg/nvxesi1u02oguctt4hha/SeattleAcademyMelindaMueller.png","width":528}])
Seattle Academy founding teacher Melinda Mueller will hold a live reading and book signing of her epic, historical poem What the Ice Gets. The widely acclaimed book covers Shackleton’s Arctic Expedition from 1914-1916. The reading will take place at 7 PM on March 21 at The Adventure Hub in Seattle. CLICK HERE to learn more and purchase tickets.
![View photo of A. Gibbons]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1552673940/seattleacademyorg/zin6scfsubfcbwmcptqi/SeattleAcademyAndersGibbons.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1552673940/seattleacademyorg/zin6scfsubfcbwmcptqi/SeattleAcademyAndersGibbons.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1552673940/seattleacademyorg/zin6scfsubfcbwmcptqi/SeattleAcademyAndersGibbons.png","width":528}])
Last month, senior Anders Gibbons traveled to several national tennis competitions. He won the National Level 2 USTA Doubles Championship in Las Vegas in early February.
![Photo of Seattle Academy 2019 Seattle Challenge Group Leader Willy Felton]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1552666420/seattleacademyorg/iqfcltmilgvblg1akdtv/SeattleChallenge2019WillyFelton.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1552666420/seattleacademyorg/iqfcltmilgvblg1akdtv/SeattleChallenge2019WillyFelton.png","width":470}])
Last week, the Class of 2023 completed the annual Seattle Challenge experience. Below is a perspective of the experience from a trip leaders view. Willy Felton is our Dean of Faculty – STEM. He has led many outdoor trips but this was his first time participating in the Seattle Challenge.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Upper School Students Study Esperanto]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1552496064/seattleacademyorg/gxvgl4m9jt96oqlhuwvm/SeattleAcademyStudentsStudyEsperantoGaryAnderson.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1552496064/seattleacademyorg/gxvgl4m9jt96oqlhuwvm/SeattleAcademyStudentsStudyEsperantoGaryAnderson.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1552496064/seattleacademyorg/gxvgl4m9jt96oqlhuwvm/SeattleAcademyStudentsStudyEsperantoGaryAnderson.png","width":528}])
Four new Esperantists (plus Anders G. not pictured) from Seattle Academy interview Katlin Kovats, a linguist and specialist in teaching methodology who is the director of the Esperanto learning site Edukado.net.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Alumni Joel Gamoran '03 Cooking Scrappy Cook Book Cover]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1551984745/seattleacademyorg/pcfhwologwu6pjioeq7f/AlumniJoelGamoran03CookingScrappyRevolution.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1551984745/seattleacademyorg/pcfhwologwu6pjioeq7f/AlumniJoelGamoran03CookingScrappyRevolution.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1551984745/seattleacademyorg/pcfhwologwu6pjioeq7f/AlumniJoelGamoran03CookingScrappyRevolution.png","width":528}])
ParentMap, an online community that informs, engages and inspires Puget Sound parents and families recently sat down with Joel for a Q&A Interview about the Cooking Scrappy Revolution.
![View Photo of 2019 Seattle Challenge]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1552059210/seattleacademyorg/y5bleud9lxomctlrq5ht/SeattleChallenge1.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1552059210/seattleacademyorg/y5bleud9lxomctlrq5ht/SeattleChallenge1.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1552059210/seattleacademyorg/y5bleud9lxomctlrq5ht/SeattleChallenge1.png","width":528}])
This week, one hundred and six of our 8th grade students completed the Seattle Challenge – an important capstone experience of Middle School at Seattle Academy. Designed over twenty-five years ago, the Seattle Challenge is a three-day urban retreat. The program explores the realities of people who experience poverty and homelessness in the city of Seattle.
![View Photo of SAAS in the City 2018 Raffle]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1551996528/seattleacademyorg/dartcx5ctkibmqcdnuim/raffle.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1551996528/seattleacademyorg/dartcx5ctkibmqcdnuim/raffle.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1551996528/seattleacademyorg/dartcx5ctkibmqcdnuim/raffle.png","width":528}])
SAAS in the City is right around the corner, and we’re excited to unveil this year’s amazing raffle packages. Two lucky winners will walk away with one of two amazing packages: Master Makers of Seattle and Very VIP Weekend Experience at the Capitol Hill Block Party.
![Photo of Seattle Academy Alumni at regional event at San Francisco Uber HQ]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1551914425/seattleacademyorg/yyttyehnvboifymxtid4/AlumnieventinSanFrancisco2019.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1551914425/seattleacademyorg/yyttyehnvboifymxtid4/AlumnieventinSanFrancisco2019.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1551914425/seattleacademyorg/yyttyehnvboifymxtid4/AlumnieventinSanFrancisco2019.png","width":528}])
In January and February, alumni regional events were held in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.