Divide and Conquer: In a district plagued by years of bond failures and overcrowding, a high school initiates a fresh start with collegiate learning tracks and a complementary campus.
On a misty Pacific Northwest morning, teenagers quickly shuffle along raised boardwalks among five school buildings with hovering roofs vaguely evocative of the bungalows common to the West Coast. Adjacent to a suburban development, the campus, tucked into the tall firs and hemlocks of a second growth forest, makes Marysville Getchell High School in Marysville, Washington, feel more like a college than a high school. Sixteen-year-old senior Louie Vital says, “It makes me feel mature in a setting like this.”
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