Harrison Prep is recognized for closing achievement gaps and Southgate is recognized for elementary overall excellence; improvement and closing achievement gaps. Schools are selected based on their statewide assessment data for the three previous years.

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Harrison Prep All-State singers from left: Beth Broadhead, Michelle Wall and Zak Buller (Kevon Williams not pictured) with their teacher Nicholas Gorne.

Four singers from Clover Park School District's Harrison Preparatory School and a cellist from Lakes High School have been selected for the Washington Music Educators Association’s All-State honors. Harrison Prep 12^th-grader Beth Broadhead and 11^th-grader Zak Buller will perform in the All-State Mixed Choir; Harrison Prep eighth-grader Michelle Wall will perform in the Junior All-State Mixed Choir and sixth-grader Kevon Williams will perform in the All-State Youth Honor Chorus.

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“I am thrilled we have finally been authorized as an IB World School,” said Lisa Boyd, principal. “The Middle Years Program introduces our middle school students to rigorous international standards and allows our staff to have access to an international community of teachers and resources.”

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Public schools are one of the pillars upon which a community is built. While the Clover Park School District has seen improvement in many areas over the last few years, much remains to be done. Of the many ways a community can help a school district, ensuring high achieving students have access to high level coursework and motivated teachers (thus remaining in the district), ranks high. That is why the Rotary Club of Lakewood partnered with the Clover Park School District nearly five years ago with the goal of bringing the International Baccalaureate (IB) program to the district. IB is an international, standards-based, education curriculum with exceedingly high standards. Click here for more information.
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Harrison Preparatory School is in the running for a $50,000 music grant through the Glee Give a Note Program and needs your help! Visit www.gleegiveanote.com every day and click on "Vote Now.” Then, search for Lt. General William H. Harrison Preparatory School to vote and watch the video submission. The contest ends Monday, Nov. 7. Only the top 500 videos from around the country will enter the final judgment phase. Contest winners will be announced Dec. 15. Harrison Prep’s choir program, led by teacher Nicholas Gorne, began last school year and now has more than 200 students. The first choir concerts of the new school year are on Oct. 19 and 20 at 7 p.m. at the school, 8800 121st St SW in Lakewood.

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Harrison Prep is working to become an International Baccalaureate school, and information will be shared about this program. For more information, contact Casey Silbaugh at 583-5418, ext. 3021.

Ashley Cribb, a junior from Harrison Preparatory School, was selected as a 2011 Washington Aerospace Scholar. The Washington Aerospace Scholar program is for high school juniors and emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math and encourages students to consider careers in those fields.

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Sandy Dick, a CPHS teacher, talks to a student and his father at the school’s College, Career and Service Fair.

Clover Park High School (CPHS) hosted its annual open house and College, Career and Service Fair on Oct. 5. More than 60 colleges and universities, community agencies, organizations and employers shared information with parents and students about their admission and application processes, programs, services and opportunities.

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Thank You. Last February, Clover Park School District voters supported a crucial school construction bond to rebuild several outdated, aging schools. Voters responded with overwhelming support. First of all, thank you for your commitment to education and safe, quality facilities for the children in our community.

In this time of economical difficulty and increased demand for accountability, it is our commitment to our community that district staff will create buildings that inspire students and embody our educational priorities while managing taxpayer funds prudently. Therefore, we wanted to provide a progress report on our implementation efforts for the 2010 school construction bond to date.

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LAKEWOOD- Students from Harrison Preparatory School visited the state Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at Camp Murray as part of their fourth annual Week Without Walls service learning project on June 2. The focus of the project was emergency preparedness and disaster management and the students learned what the role of EOC staff is during emergencies. The students have been learning about the different kinds of natural disasters they could encounter in the Northwest and how to prepare for them.

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I have appreciated seeing news articles featuring the United Way Varsity Letter in Community Service Program (here and here). Two of my sons earned this distinction this year. Micah (Junior) got his second letter via Steilacoom High School, and Noah (Freshman) got his first. Noah is also the very first varsity letter winner of any type for Harrison Prep. Noah volunteered over 250 hours to earn the Varsity Letter - mostly working with younger children at the YMCA and his church. His 250 hours also brought a Gold level Presidential Service Award from President Obama.

Your two artcles have included photos of the Steilacoom and Clover Park School District letter winners - minus a photo of Noah (left). Thanks for highlighting these great young people, who have grasped early in life the tremendous value of giving time and talents to benefit others.

Pete Donor
Lakewood

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Are you interested in enrolling your student at Harrison Preparatory? Have you heard about the school but don’t know if it is for your child? Harrison accepts students in 6-12 grade who are interested in a rigorous curriculum, can meet high expectations, and want to go to college. Harrison is also an International Baccalaureate Candidate School, which is all-inclusive, works on inter-disciplinary units, focuses on the whole student and emphasizes inter-cultural awareness and communication. Bus transportation is provided for students in the Clover Park School District. (more...)

More than 300 students from Clover Park, Harrison Prep and Lakes High Schools attended the Historically Black Colleges and Universities College Fair Feb. 3 at Clover Park. Students attended in business attire and brought along their portfolios, admission essays, transcript, test scores and letters of recommendation. (more...)

"We are very excited to offer the Middle Years Program curriculum and practices at Harrison Prep," said Lisa Boyd, principal. "This program introduces our students to rigorous international standards and allows our staff to have access to an international community of teachers and resources. We are very excited."
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2009 Teen Library Card Contest Winner

Michelle Barreto, 18, from Lakewood's Harrison Preparatory School created the winning library card design using the medium of watercolor, in Pierce County Library System's first-ever teen library card design contest. People may view her winning artwork online at piercecountylibrary.org, and above.

Professional artists reviewed entries and selected five finalists. Then, 1,240 Pierce County residents cast votes on the Library’s Web site to choose the winner.

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