New to the school district this year is Cap Sante High School, an education alternative situated in portable buildings just east of Anacortes High School. Cap Sante High School, with an enrollment of almost 50 students in grade 9-12, offers not only a learning alternative, but proximity to AHS features such as the high school’s [...]
For one of the service learning projects the Challenge Class at Island View Elementary have elected to hold a walk-a-thon this coming Friday (1/19, 1:30-2:30). Funds raised will go to the Tommy Thompson Trestle restoration project. Both Mrs. Heffelfinger’s & Mrs Bakke-Schultz Challenge classes will be participating. Friends and family can choose to sponsor their child [...]
Have you been receiving new phone books and wondering what is good way to dispose of your old phone books? Jessica Notaro’s son Anthony is a student at Mt. Erie Elementary and they are having a phone book recycling drive. The used phone books are donated to Habitat for Humanity and used in making [...]
Anacortes High School’s alternative learning program is being updated and expanding to meet the needs of more students. Formerly call the Learning Opportunity Center, the new program will be called Cap Sante High School. This new Anacortes school will offer options which include days, evenings, independent study, and work-based learning , and online classes. On site classroom classes will be [...]
The new marine technology center in Anacortes is scheduled to open next year – 2010! The $5.3 million facility was made possible by a partnership of Skagit Valley College, the Port of Anacortes, the Northwest Career and Technical Academy and the Anacortes Campus of the Marine Technology Center. The 15,000 square foot campus is located [...]
The Anacortes School District will host a “community linkage breakfast” next week Thursday, Dec. 4th at Calico Cupboard from 7-10 AM. The purpose of the breakfast is to help forge stronger community relations by allowing local residents to interact with the school board. In this outreach event, the The Anacortes School District is hoping for feedback on how the [...]