Puget Sound Community School (PSCS) is an independent middle and high school, located in the heart of the Chinatown-International District in Downtown, Seattle, WA.
PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum, student choice, accountability, and thoughtful collaboration.
Tuition aid: Most years, PSCS awards over $100,000 in aid to current and incoming families. All admissions decisions are made independently of tuition aid offers. To the extent that our funds permit, aid is available to qualifying students whose parents are able to establish financial need through the aid application process. If you have questions regarding the aid process, please call or email us.Program Aid: PSCS works hard to include fees and expenses in tuition costs and not nickel and dime families as we go along in a school year. Added fees depend on individual student activities and the needs of certain courses. However, we want students to be able to do things that may have associated fees, regardless of their economic status. As such, we offer program aid to families for whom added costs might stand in the way of a student doing activities or taking courses they are interested in.
Puget Sound Community School is committed to co-creating a
brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,
student choice, accountability, and thoughtful collaboration.
Core Commitments
Practice Integrity. Engage the Community. Act with
Courage.
Philosophy
Puget Sound Community School (PSCS) is an independent middle
and high school, located in the heart of the
Chinatown-International District in Downtown, Seattle, WA. We
believe that people are intrinsically compelled by our innate
curiosity and desire to learn; when provided choice, positive
support, scrutable accountability, and a responsive
curriculum-taught by engaged, multi-skilled teachers-we will all
enthusiastically pursue meaningful goals and purpose. As far as
this is true for adults, we see how these shared instincts also
cultivate conscientious, community-minded, and self-motivated young
people. The approaches used at PSCS foster creativity, flexibility,
and compassion, while encouraging students and staff to focus
deeper on those activities and classes that bring them joy and
purpose. To do this, PSCS offers one-on-one Advising relationships
and curricula built around student interest, growth, and need.
Additional community expectations are designed to scaffold growth
in understanding social and restorative justice, and personal,
contextual, and responsible identity.
In May of 2021, in an effort to build upon the collaborative
and equitable vision of the school, PSCS parents, staff, and the
Board of Trustees agreed to invest in non-hierarchical
administration and collaborative leadership, rather than in a
traditional Head of School. This decision resulted in the formation
of an Administrative Team that functions in close cooperation with
the Teaching Staff. Students who fully embrace the program offered
at PSCS show consistent progress in self-expression, leadership,
and skill-building in almost any endeavor, and start to recognize
they are part of something bigger than themselves.
Grades: 1-8 | 141 students9.5 miles 14050 1st Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98125 (260) 499-4481
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School Reviews
5.00 out of 5(2 reviews)
52/11/2020
We absolutely love this school. Our daughter is very happy here after years of struggling to feel comfortable in a traditional school. She has found her peer group, is invited to pursue her passions (digital art), and is learning the key components to social justice, empathy, and kindness. The staff is fully committed to wholeness-based academics. The community is very engaging and active. The advisors work with each student individually to achieve their goals. Most of their graduates over the past 25 years have gone on to further education/university. They have a relatively new head of school who has brought in strategies and improvements that needed to be made heading into this next quarter of a century. I love their social justice focus and approve of their intentionality surrounding more focused academic goals. The student body is comprised of a variety of binary and non-binary genders and sexualities. The staff is the same and is also comprised of 50% teachers of color. I highly recommend this school to students who know the importance of social justice and environmental responsibility and whose learning goals root in their own passions.
- Posted by Parent - Middle School Mom
58/2/2013
A small community school based on being kind and learning to love school--not just hoping to get through it.
- Posted by Administrator - getlo
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