Seattle's Premier Charter School Grades 6-12
Anti-Racist. Leadership. Collaborative Community
2023/24 ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN
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Congratulations! You’re on a new journey to becoming an RVLA parent. The excitement is indescribable; your student joins a school with a fantastic team of supporters that will prepare them for life after high school.
Do you want to know your next steps?
Take a look at why RVLA is different from other schools. Go to RVLA Difference
RVLA is an anti-racist school.
What does THAT mean?
We continuously address racism with urgency and action by decolonizing and dismantling systems of oppression to empower our community.
RVLA calls students…scholars.
That’s different…
Students are typically defined as individuals who are learning at a school or in a teaching environment, whereas a scholar is often described as a learned person who has exhibited accelerated learning competencies and/or possesses high content knowledge of a particular subject.
YUP!
RVLA is a collaborative community.
What?
RVLA is designed for the community, by the community.
RVLA develops leaders.
Leadership goes beyond positions of power and comes in many forms. We elevate the voice of our future local and global leaders by teaching critical thinking, advocacy for self and others and challenging our scholars to speak out and ask questions.
Schedule a campus visit. Campus visits are held on Thursday mornings and afternoons 10am and 1pm. Click here to schedule your next campus visit.
Leadership goes beyond positions of power and comes in many forms. We elevate the voice of our future local and global leaders by teaching critical thinking, advocacy for self and others and challenging our scholars to speak out and ask questions.
Schedule a campus visit. Campus visits are held on Thursday mornings and afternoons 10am and 1pm. Click here to schedule your next campus visit.
Scholars Thrive Here - Apply to Get on the Waitlist!
We are a public, tuition-free, anti-racist collaborative community school serving 6th-12th grade in South Seattle.
RVLA is proud to be featured in the #CanopyProject, a collective research project that enables educators to better understand how schools are innovating across the US. This national study launched in 2019 as a collaborative national effort to highlight equitable, student-centered innovation in K–12. Today, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and Transcend are releasing new and updated information about 161 innovative school designs, including RAINIER VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. The data is available on a new interactive data portal that makes it easy to browse the school data and view individual school profiles.
In a historically challenging moment for K-12 education, elevating examples of learning environments designing for equity and student-centered learning is more important than ever. We are constantly searching for ways to strengthen our vision and mission of antiracism, collaborative community, & leadership in order to provide a liberatory education while at the same time maintaining a highly rigorous academic outcome for our scholars. Check out the Canopy today: www.canopyschools.org
OUR PILLARS
Collaborative CommunityWe honor our past and present by celebrating the voice of our community, we exceed what is possible by using our collective strengths.
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Anti-RacistWe continuously address racism with urgency and action, we decolonize and dismantle systems of oppression to empower our community.
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LeadershipWe elevate the voice of our future local and global leaders; leadership goes beyond positions of power and comes in many forms.
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Scholar Voices
Being a scholar at Rainier Valley Leadership Academy is important to me because it’s the community I live in. I’m excited to partner with you to make RVLA a better place for people. Rainier Valley Leadership Academy has impacted my growth as a scholar by teaching me how to be myself. We have this mentor group and every morning we make a circle and share our feelings and how we are doing. Being a scholar at RVLA is important to me because I got friends and I got teachers that care about me and support me. |
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We Are An NCAA School.
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Washington State Governor's Office of the Education Ombuds (OMBUDS)
Washington State Governor’s Office of the Education Ombuds (OEO) The Washington State Governor’s Office of the Education Ombuds (OEO) is an independent state agency that helps to reduce educational opportunity gaps by supporting families, students, educators, and other stakeholders in communities across WA in understanding the K-12 school system and resolving concerns collaboratively. OEO services are free and confidential. Anyone can contact OEO with a question or concern about school. OEO listens, shares information and referrals, and works informally with families, communities, and schools to address concerns so that every student can fully participate and thrive in our state’s public schools. OEO provides support in multiple languages and has telephone interpretation available. To get help or learn more about what OEO does, please visit our website: https://www.oeo.wa.gov/en; email oeoinfo@gov.wa.gov, or call: 1-866-297-2597 (interpretation available). (English)
Information for families is available here. See links to flyers in various languages here.
Washington State Governor’s Office of the Education Ombuds (OEO) The Washington State Governor’s Office of the Education Ombuds (OEO) is an independent state agency that helps to reduce educational opportunity gaps by supporting families, students, educators, and other stakeholders in communities across WA in understanding the K-12 school system and resolving concerns collaboratively. OEO services are free and confidential. Anyone can contact OEO with a question or concern about school. OEO listens, shares information and referrals, and works informally with families, communities, and schools to address concerns so that every student can fully participate and thrive in our state’s public schools. OEO provides support in multiple languages and has telephone interpretation available. To get help or learn more about what OEO does, please visit our website: https://www.oeo.wa.gov/en; email oeoinfo@gov.wa.gov, or call: 1-866-297-2597 (interpretation available). (English)
Information for families is available here. See links to flyers in various languages here.
