About Nova

Contact Us

2410 E. Cherry St.
Seattle, WA 98122

Main Office: 206-252-3500
Fax: 206-252-3501

Principal: Eyva Winet (they/them)
edwinet@seattleschools.org

Nova is a liberatory learning space where students, staff, families, and our community partners work collaboratively to move through cycles of growth which include healing, celebration, scholarship, reflection, creation, and action. Through these cycles, we deconstruct systems of power and privilege and rebuild ourselves, our school, and our communities with different ways of being. By decentering whiteness, patriarchy, heteronormativity and cisnormativity, and able bodies, and by embracing neurodiversity, we are revisioning educational communities as spaces where students’ needs are met, growth is the metric that matters, and behavior is understood as a form of communication. We are creating a space where bodies, minds, and spirits are treated with compassion and consent and where systemic harm is transformed into healing, creation, and action.

Nova’s innovative teaching and learning approach provides inquiry based instruction where students apply their learning through application, performance, and portfolio-based assessment. Nova is a non-graded competency-based program with a long history of successfully transitioning students into their post high school college and career goals. Our coordinating system provides a robust and individualized advisor and mentor for every student. Students share decision making and learn individual and social responsibility in a personalized and safe environment. Nova operates with a growth mindset where we build into our curriculum and our committee and advisory systems academic, social, and emotional development.

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Enroll at Nova

Nova High School offers an innovative teaching and learning approach that provides inquiry-based instruction where students apply their learning through application, performance, and portfolio-based assessment to demonstrate competencies. Nova does not assign grades to students nor are students ranked. As an Alternative Learning Experience (ALE) school, each student has a personalized learning plan and is held to additional requirements, including ethnic studies coursework, social justice projects, community engagement, community agreements, and social responsibility.

• School Intake Procedures: Orientations and school tours are held on select Tuesdays and Thursdays during school hours. During orientation, staff and families review ALE school expectations and community norms. For students with IEPs, enrollment may depend on determining if there is available space in a program that meets the student’s needs.
• Mid-Year Transfer Requests: Families are encouraged to call the Nova office first to schedule an orientation. After attending orientation, current students enrolled at Seattle Public Schools can request a transfer by contacting the Enrollment office online for reassignment to Nova, pending confirmation of available program space. In the subject line, type: Transfer Request to Nova. In the description box, please include the following information: Student’s legal first/last name, Student ID (if known), Student Date of Birth, with parent name and phone number.
• Next Year Assignment Requests: Students who would like to attend Nova for the following school year may do so by applying during the Open Enrollment period starting January 5 through March 31. Assignments will be made after confirmation of available program space. After Open Enrollment has ended, all requests must follow the same steps as a Mid-Year Transfer Request as stated above.

To enroll at Nova as a non-resident, living outside Seattle city limits:

• Non-resident enrollment timeline is only from June 1st to August 31st of any year.
• Visit Non-Resident Students for more enrollment information.

Schedule your orientation:

• Contact the main office to RSVP! (206)252-3500.