Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning is a public middle school located in Sammamish, King County, Washington, USA. It uses a lottery based system to accept and reject students from the Lake Washington School District. Renaissance, located on the campus of Eastlake High School, has an arts-based curriculum and a maximum enrollment of 96 students, 32 in each grade. Renaissance accepts student applications from all elementary and middle schools in Lake Washington School District.
History Renaissance was founded in 2006Tuinstra, Rachel. "Eastside students return to new rules, lunch choices, more", Seattle Times, 2 September 2006. Retrieved 4 June 2009. by Martha Daman. The school held its first commencement for graduating ninth grade students in June 2009.Staff Directory page at RSAR website. Retrieved 4 June 2009. However, in 2011, all schools in the Lake Washington School District decided that children would begin middle school/junior high in sixth grade, and graduate middle school/junior high in eighth grade.
Curriculum The Renaissance curriculum is based in the visual and performing arts.Our Mission page at RSAR website. Retrieved 4 June 2009. The school's total enrollment is deliberately kept small.
See also Charter school
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