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Northwest SchoolThe Northwest School is a private middle and high school located on Seattle, Washington's First Hill. Founded in 1978, it is located in the 1905 Summit School building, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Literature and history are taught in a combined program called Humanities. Besides required instruction in the humanities, mathematics, science, and a foreign language, there is a heavy emphasis on the fine arts. Students take two fine art classes each year, and must satisfy distributional requirements (at least one class each of theater, visual art, music, and dance). Students are also responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the school through the Environment program, whereby 15 minutes of time are set aside each day for students to clean and maintain the school. More large-scale maintenance projects are handled by the school's single janitor. The school's policy on behavior is "Courtesy and Common Sense." Rules that do not result from this policy are usually in some way state-mandated. For example, students are no longer allowed barefoot in the hallways because there is a Washington state health law against it. When a student is expelled, they are said to have "initiated the process of withdrawal from the coummunity"; the administration is, by this logic, only making the withdrawal formal. Northwest has 429 students, 16% of whom are from outside the United States. There is a dormitory for students in the international program (most of whom hail from Asia) across the street from the school. Tuition in 2004 was $18,175. Entrance to Northwest is competitive and based on the Independent School Entrance Examination, reference letters, and an application. Nearly all of the students go on to four-year colleges. External links - http://www.northwestschool.org
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