Covenant High School Profile

School Characteristics and Achievement

Covenant High School, founded in 1992, is an accredited and state-approved, college-preparatory day school for grades 9 through 12. Student population is 101 in grades 9-12 and the average class size is 20 students.

• Our underclassmen take the Stanford Achievement Test each spring; over the last six years our students have ranked in the top 18% nationally.
• Over the last five years, our students have SAT scores (combined critical reading, math and writing) place them as a group in the top 28% of college-bound seniors nationally.
• On average, 35% of our graduating seniors are honored as Washington State Honor Awardees – an award bestowed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the top 10% of college-bound seniors in the state.
• Typically, nearly all of our graduates go on to college – approximately 75% attend four-year colleges and 25% attend community college.

CHS’s rigorous curriculum is centered upon a thorough exploration of the classics of English literature. Our students develop their skills by reading, thinking and writing about the great themes of the classic authors. Strong math, science, history, Bible and Spanish courses complete the core curriculum. Electives in computers, fine arts and Latin are offered.

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Well-Qualified Faculty

70% of the faculty hold post-graduate degrees. Our highly qualified and experienced educators are committed to academic excellence and the spiritual nurture of students. 80% of the faculty has over 5 years of teaching experience.

Writing Awards

CHS student writers have excelled in local, regional, and national competitions.

• World Trade Center essay competition – top award two years in a row.
• Our Own Words, regional poetry and fiction contest – CHS students repeatedly outperformed students from any other high school in the region. In a recent writing competition, of 800 county-wide entries, CHS students won four out of twelve high school monetary prizes
• CHS has repeatedly been awarded “The Poetic Achievement Award” by the national organization Creative Communications, and has been eligible for language arts grants based on the high number of student poets published in anthologies of student poetry.

SAT Reasoning Score Averages

Distribution of Cumulative GPAs

Grading Scale

The report cards follow the Washington State Transcript Guidelines which stipulate credit values and grade values as follows:

Covenant High School Graduation Requirements (semester credits)

620 South Shirley Street, Tacoma, WA 98465

Telephone: 253-759-9570

Fax: 253-759-1377

Email: office@chstacoma.org

Web Site: www.chstacoma.org

Principal: Richard Hannula