Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:13:50-07:00November 28th, 2017|
Vancouver School of Arts and Academics was selected to receive a $376,000 Washington Sustainable Schools Grant to make its building environmentally friendly. Work began in summer 2007 and continued during the 2007-08 school year. To minimize disruption to learning, two doublewide portable units were used as temporary classroom spaces.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:14:19-07:00November 28th, 2017|
Vancouver School of Arts and Academics was recognized as a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School for 2005 by the U.S. Department of Education. Then-Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings presented the award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:14:56-07:00November 28th, 2017|
VSAA, Fort Vancouver High School and Thomas Jefferson Middle School were chosen to receive $5,000 grants to create artwork for the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's expedition. Part of the Confluence Project, the student artwork complements seven works of art by Maya Lin.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:15:46-07:00November 28th, 2017|
The International Network of Performing and Visual Arts Schools presented Vancouver School of Arts and Academics with a New and Emerging School Award.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:16:16-07:00November 28th, 2017|
The school expanded to include its first senior class.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:16:45-07:00November 28th, 2017|
Vancouver School of Arts and Academics opened in fall 1996 for students in sixth through 11th grades. The school was one of five selected nationwide to receive a $250,000 research grant from the College Board and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:17:29-07:00November 28th, 2017|
Remodeling began on the former Shumway building.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:18:03-07:00November 28th, 2017|
A ceremony honored Shumway as it ended 66 years as a junior high school. It was remodeled before reopening in fall 1996 as a magnet school for the arts. Vancouver Public Schools was awarded a $750,000 Building for the Arts grant to help renovate the Shumway building.
Sara Neal, Communications staff2019-08-21T09:18:24-07:00November 28th, 2017|
Shumway was the first junior high school in Vancouver. It opened with 400 students and 16 staff members.