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Stage Band Performs at Kennedy Center

Guitarist Malcolm Douglas (‘23) and the brass section performing at the Kennedy Center May 19 Credits: @volleydc via Instagram The School...

How Has Walls Changed Since COVID? Teachers and Seniors Weigh In.

Most Walls students’ lives have changed a lot in the past three years. But how has Walls changed as a school?

Building Briefly Loses Running Water

For 45 minutes on the morning of April 7, School Without Walls did not have running water beyond the first floor.

DCPS Schools Are Supposed to Recycle. At Least Three — Including Walls — Don’t.

Recycling in this bin, in Commons A, can’t be recycled when students put nonrecyclable waste in it. / Credits: Gabriel Kraemer Walls has...

Walls Avoids Major Budget Cuts

Reductions were smaller than expected despite the end of pandemic aid.

Walls Rome Trip, First Outside U.S. Since Pandemic, a “Resounding Success”

Seniors on the Rome trip visiting Pompeii Feb. 22 / Credits: Jan McGlennon Last month, 16 Walls seniors accompanied teachers Carlton...

Seniors Victorious in School-Wide Quiz Bowl Tournament

The cheer team performs before the final Quiz Bowl tournament round March 8 / Credits: Adah Svetlik On March 8 during advisory, all of...

Students Participate in Youth and Government Legislative Weekend

Amina Ford (‘23), center, gives a speech to open the conference / Credits: Wyndham Mills Fourteen Walls students attended the D.C. Youth...

Robotics Team Wins Local Championship

The Walls robotics team, center, after winning the FIRST Chesapeake District Championship March 12 / Credits: Simon Kirschenbaum A...

Survey: Overwhelming Majority of Students Dissatisfied With Walls Elective Options

What electives are you most interested in? / Source: Rookery survey About 26 years ago, School Without Walls offered a French culinary...

DCPS Eliminates 501(c)(3) Requirement For Service Hours

D.C.’s dramatic reduction of its 30-year-old community service requirement for the classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025 earlier this year —...

How Does the Walls Admissions Process Work?

Outside the Walls building March 27 / Credits: Meerabela Kempf Hundreds of eighth-grade students came to Walls for admissions interviews...

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