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Gender composition |
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Dress code |
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School Mission
- Cougar Mountain Academy is a school for highly capable children and for those with parental support willing to put forth the effort needed to reach levels of excellence. Cougar mountain Academy is for children with high expectations and is dedicated to providing an excellent education for each individual student. The high caliber program/curriculum combined with an individual, non-graded and non-competitive approach to learning enables each student to develop optimum potential and deep love of learning.
| Curriculum |
- Foreign language(s) taught: French.
- This school has a particular instructional focus on accelerated learning, honors, college preparation.
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Instructional Program Highlights
- The curriculum is individualized to serve the needs of each child.
- Each student is given the opportunity to advance in the traditional academic subjects of math, geometry, language arts and reading.
- Each child is given the opportunity to advance regardless of grade level or class placement.
| Activities and Sports |
- Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: Chess Club; Zoology; Geography; Creative Writing; Arts and Crafts and Music.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: We have electives which consist of a variety of subjects including Zoology, Chess, Arts and Crafts, Creative Writing and Geography.
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Parent and Community Support
- Parents are involved through a parent volunteer group that contributes time and ideas to special wants at the Academy.
Community service projects include food and money donations to families in need in November; Adopt-a-Family program through the Issaquah Food and Clothing bank during the month of December; support of the Cougar Mountain Zoological Society.
Other news or notes
- Cougar Mountain Academy is a school with high expectations and excellence in education. The focus is on academics with a strong emphasis on respecting others and high standard for behavioral conduct.
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- This school was established between 1960-1969.
- No transportation is provided to this school.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Measures used to evaluate applicants: interview and samples of student work.
- To evaluate applicants, this school also uses: Testing: Metropolitan Achievement Test.
- Standardized tests used to evaluate applicants: MAT.
- 0-20% of students receive financial aid to attend this school.
- Graduates typically go to: Overlake School; Lakeside Academy and Forest Ridge.
- About half of the students at this school come from the neighborhood where the school is located.
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| Other Features and Highlights |
- Regular classroom hours: 8:45am to 3:00pm.
- Principal has been at this school for 9 years.
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| Source of Data |
Additional information, including curriculum and special programs, was either submitted to GreatSchools by a school official or comes directly from the school or school district's Web site. This page was last updated on 03/28/2007. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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