page_title: Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Seattle Academy Cardinal Union Building
context_page_description: Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences is a coed independent middle and high school located on Seattle, Washington's urban Capitol Hill. The school was founded in 1983.
  Seattle Academy has 1,048 students. Annual tuition is $38,400 during the 2020–2021 school year. The school consists of grades 6–12.
  In 2017, the institution broke ground on a $48 million, five-story middle school building located at the intersection of 13th Avenue and Union Street.
  SAAS consists of six main buildings: the Temple building, which houses the Upper School Humanities Department; the Vanderbilt Building, the Arts Center, which houses math and art classes; the Gym, complete with a weight room, multiple exercise machines, and a basketball court; the STREAM Building, a Gold LEED certified facility dedicated to the Upper School Science curriculum; and the Middle School Building, a five-story middle school building which opened in Fall 2018.
context_section_description: Arts Center
  The Arts Center, or AC, is one of the six main buildings currently used by Seattle Academy. The building was opened in 2001. The Arts Center holds the high school's arts programs, which include theater, music, studio arts, and photography. It is a requirement for all students to take every arts course at least once.
  Art Center facilities include a darkroom, a video production studio, visual art studios, a metallurgy balcony, music classrooms, the 250-seat Orvis Theater, a smaller black box theater, dressing rooms, and a green room.
  Cardinal Union Building
  The Cardinal Union Building is a five-story middle school building that opened at the start of the 2018-2019 school year. It added a second gym, rooftop playfield, lunchroom, and common spaces to the existing SAAS campus. 
  Gym
  The Gym was completed in 2003. This two-story building houses a dance studio, a weight-training room, and a regulation basketball court with bleachers, among its other facilities.
  Temple
  The Temple Building, which Seattle Academy shares with historical synagogue Temple De Hirsch Sinai, houses the Upper School Humanities Program. In addition, the school will often use the Temple's Sanctuary for all-school meetings.
  Upper School students are accustomed to walking to the Temple Building for their Upper School Humanities classes.
  Theaters
  The Orvis Theater (named for previous head of School Jean Orvis) is Seattle Academy's primary theater and is located in the Arts Center. The theater holds 250 seats and is equipped with advanced sound and lighting technologies. Each year, the Upper School holds three major high school productions: a comedy, a musical, and a drama.
  An intimate black box theater is used to perform smaller shows, including Middle School productions.
  Vanderbilt
  Acquired in 1998, the Vanderbilt is the second oldest of Seattle Academy's five buildings. The Vanderbilt Building houses Seattle Academy's English, History, and Science departments. The school's library and offices can be found on the second floor.
  STREAM Building
  Completed in the summer of 2015, The SAAS STREAM Building is a facility dedicated to the Upper School Science curriculum and project-based integration of Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
  The STREAM building includes 7 purpose-built science lab and studio spaces that have been designed to maximize both space and flexibility to meet current and future course needs. The building also features another important new space for SAAS - a Learning Commons. The Commons are dedicated to student collaboration, study, and research, as well as a place to spend free time and lunch.
  12th Avenue Conference Room
  The 12th Avenue Conference Room is a small facility located between the Vanderbilt and Arts Center buildings. It is a multi-purpose space, commonly used for meetings and classes.
caption: Seattle Academy CUB Building