Older Sister

Annie Wright School,
founded in 1884,
is the big sister to Tacoma's
Charles Wright Academy.

Annie Wright was founded as a school for young ladies.
It's now coed for younger students,
but the high school still is populated only by young women.

Charles Wright, which opened in the 1950's,
began as a school for boys
(the brothers of those Annie Wright girls),
but now Charles Wright is coed
from preschool through high school.

Athletic Fields

This time of year, this field is the site
of many Friday night football games.


Lowell Anne Butson was a community leader
and long-time member of the board of trustees
at Charles Wright Academy.

After her sudden and unexpected death a few years ago,
the school named its athletic complex for her,
in tribute to her service.

Green Art Installation

Seven years ago, students who were then
ninth-graders at Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma
installed a series of ceramic totem poles in a park in early autumn.

It was the culmination of a project they began
the previous spring in middle school art
under the direction of a gifted teacher and artist
named Christopher Hoppin.


The installation's theme was protecting and preserving
the environment and the earth's natural diversity.

Those students are now well into their university studies
and can be proud that their art still stands,
a testament to their creativity and service to community.

Finishing Touches

Workers are putting the finishing touches
on the new Language and Performing Arts wing,
an addition to the upper school (grades 9 - 12)


at Tacoma's Charles Wright Academy.

The school offers an excellent (albeit expensive)
education from preschool to high school graduation,
with small classes and a challenging curriculum.

Every student must take visual or performing arts classes
in addition to English, math and sciences,
foreign language, history and physical education.