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Woodinville Montessori School graduates first high school senior class
Woodinville Montessori School has celebrated a big milestone—its first senior class graduates from its new high school program.
Woodinville Montessori School celebrated a big milestone in June—the graduation of its first senior class from its newly completed Woodinville Montessori High School program, at its Bothell campus.
Though small, the class of three students scored big achievements. The 2017 WMHS grads will all attend college on academic scholarships: Emery Armentrout at Trinity University in Texas, Isabel Canning at Goucher College in Maryland and Ivy MacDuff at Willamette University in Oregon.
The grads collectively received 13 college acceptances, and merit scholarship offers totaling $1.08 million over four years. Ivy earned a Washington State Honors Award for ranking in the top 10 percent of 2017 Washington state high school graduates, and also maintained a 4.0 GPA. Ivy and Isabel were National Merit Commended Students. The class averaged in the 95th percentile on both the SAT and ACT test scores.
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The 2017 commencement also marked the completion of the high school program itself, a process begun in fall of 2014 with the addition of one grade per year. Since its establishment in 1983, Woodinville Montessori School had grown to serve toddlers through ninth-grade students, with all grade levels offered at the Bothell campus, and exclusively early childhood programs at the original Woodinville campus. But when parents wanted their students to have a Montessori education all the way through, the Board of Trustees decided to expand the main school to a full secondary program.
The school actually awarded its first high school diploma in 2015. A former student wanted to complete his high school credits at WMHS, and though the four-year program was not yet fully implemented, the school was offering the course he needed to meet graduation requirements.
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WMHS is fully accredited by the American Montessori Society (AMS), and by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS). NWAIS and AMS establish and oversee standards of excellence for Montessori and independent schools. Accreditation signifies that schools have voluntarily committed to continuous school improvement and compliance with those standards.
For more information, visit www.woodinvillemontessori.org.