Congratulations to our WAAS State MathCounts Competition Team of David You (7th), Takoda Lac (8th), Mira Hu (7th) and Harsha Bandapalli (8th), who represented WAAS very well at the State Competition in Durham this past Friday.  The team finished 16th overall in the...

Congratulations to all of our WAAS Drama Club performers in Disney’s The Descendants! Our actors and actresses brought wonderful energy, passion, and many unforgettable personalities to life over the course of their shows from Thursday-Sunday this past week. We are...

A major congratulations to 6th Grader Ziva Panchal who represented WAAS this past Saturday at the North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair! Ziva placed a very impressive 3rd in her category, Biological Sciences. She dedicated extra time over the last month...

Congratulations to the members of the WAAS Quiz Bowl team who competed this past Saturday in the International Academic Competitions History and Geography Bee at Duke University! This was a competitive event featuring students from around the Southeastern US. Student...

Congratulations to 8th Grade students Liesl Rivenbark, Ben Robinson, Myra Shanker, and Perry Tennant who competed in the Regional National History Day event on Saturday, March 14th at the New Hanover County Government Center. Due to renovations this year at Cape Fear...

Congratulations to our Middle School Science Olympiad Teams for their outstanding performances at their Regional Tournament on Saturday at UNCW! The Varsity Team won the overall event with an impressive best overall score of 71, winning the varsity event by 43 points....

Our WAAS middle school students competed in the AMC 8 Math contest on January 28th during their grade level math classes. The student’s results were collectively the best we have ever had at WAAS, and WAAS once again earned the School of Merit Award for the student’s...

We are very proud to announce our 2026 Azalea Festival Writing Contest Winners from WAAS! The students' literary pieces were selected from a pool of 56 essays and 68 poems submitted from across the state of North Carolina. The winning authors and poets were recognized...

Congratulations to our Elementary Science Olympiad Team on finishing first place in the New Hanover County Elementary Tournament at Ashley High School on Satruday, 2/28! We are very proud of all of you and the hard work you have put in to prepare for this tournament!...

Congratulations to our WAAS MathCounts Team on winning the Regional MathCounts Competition on Saturday, February 21st at Trask Middle School! Three WAAS students finished in the Top 10 in the opening team round, and we had wonderful showing in the countdown round as...