Riverpoint Academy (RA) is a four-year high school operated by the

Mead School District Mead School District No. 354 is a public School district serving Mead and North Spokane communities for over 100 years. Over 10,000 students attend the 15 schools in the district which consists of two high schools, an alternative high school, a S ...

Spokane Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada ...

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

, United States. Riverpoint is a

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School, with an enrollment of about 200 students. The school was established in 2012 with 75 students on the then-named

Riverpoint Campus The WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus, (formerly the Riverpoint Campus, and originally, the Riverpoint Higher Education Park) is an urban , multi-institutional higher education campus in Spokane, Washington. The campus was established in 1990 by ...

(its namesake) near

Downtown Spokane Downtown Spokane or Riverside is the central business district of Spokane, Washington. The Riverside neighborhood is roughly bounded by I-90 to the south, Division Street to the east, Monroe Street to the west and Boone Avenue to the north. The t ...

with the vision of harnessing the synergies created with the university community, including access to university libraries, some college-level classes taught by university faculty, and mentors from the local business community. The school occupied space in the then-named Innovate Washington Building, originally the SIRTI Building, and remained there for one year, before outgrowing the space and relocating to its current location within school district's attendance boundaries in the fall of 2013. On May 7, 2019, the Mead School Board approved $11.3 million in budget cuts resulting in a temporary two-year suspension, and soon thereafter, a permeant shutdown of Riverpoint Academy. The budget cuts were said to be related to budget shortfalls created by the abrupt effects of the

McCleary Decision ''Mathew and Stephanie McCleary et al., v. State of Washington'' (short form: ''McCleary v. Washington''), commonly known as the McCleary Decision, was a lawsuit against the State of Washington. The case alleged that the state, in the body of the ...

that affected many school districts in Washington.

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* {{authority control High schools in Spokane County, Washington