[5] SOTA, SAMI, and IDEA also offer University of Washington Credits through multiple classes and beginning in 2014 offer over 20 College in the High School classes for credit through Tacoma Community College.

[7] Shortly after, SOTA was one of only four schools in the inaugural year to win at the national level.

[citation needed] Many SOTA projects are student-run, including some aspects of the school's administration.

[8] Departments offered include those of the Visual Arts (photography, graphic design, film, drawing, and painting) and those of the Performing Arts (songwriting and audio recording, instrumental music, singer-songwriter, vocal music, dance, and technical theater).

For the 2020–2021 school year during which the COVID-19 pandemic was occurring, many students chose remote learning options at SOTA on Microsoft Teams.

[13] The Tacoma Science and Math Institute, or SAMI, opened for the 2009–2010 school year.