Today’s the day that Seattle Public Schools, and most local private schools, welcome everyone back after a too-short summer (aren’t they always?). Highlights from our online tour of WS public schools:
CHIEF SEALTH HS: It’s the last year before students are scheduled to move temporarily to Boren on Delridge before the Sealth-Denny construction project begins next summer.
WEST SEATTLE HS: Westsiders have a new assistant principal, Jenni Maughan-MacDonald, and Bruce Bivins starts his first year as permanent principal.
SOUTH LAKE HS AT HUGHES: Last year before moving back into a new building.
PATHFINDER K-8: A really nice, admirably comprehensive website.
DENNY MIDDLE SCHOOL: Gotta love the “Big 5.”
MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL: Nice namesake quote.
ARBOR HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY: 13 years ago, it became one of the first few elementary schools to start a website. (You can see how it evolved over the years in a tour starting from this page.)
ALKI ELEMENTARY: There’s a new principal this year, Joanne Hill.
COOPER ELEMENTARY: Student websites!
GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY: Making progress on the Operation Imagination playground-renovation project.
LAFAYETTE ELEMENTARY: Big progress on their playground project too, which broke ground just as last school year ended. So far, according to a note we got recently from Curtis LaPierre: Irrigated grass playfield, new wall-ball area & new basketball hoops.
HIGHLAND PARK ELEMENTARY: Photo gallery of the back-to-school barbecue 2 weeks ago.
ROXHILL ELEMENTARY: Cathy Thompson is the new principal.
SANISLO ELEMENTARY: A new principal here too — Debbie Nelsen.
SCHMITZ PARK ELEMENTARY: Just got a shoutout in the Seattle Public Schools (unofficial) Blog for its 87% mark in the writing WASL, described as “one of the highest scores in the city.”
WEST SEATTLE ELEMENTARY: How could we forget? New name – the building is the former High Point Elementary; students from the now-closed Fairmount Park Elementary have merged into this school building.
Good luck to everyone in ’07-’08 — and if anything happens at your school that you want everyone in WS to know about (or if you need help from outside the school community), please let us know so we can help get the word out.
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