Updated March 24 with information about McDonald Elementary School from our news partner My Wallingford. As school assignments start arriving in the mail, Seattle Public Schools has released its transportation zone plan for bus and walk zones for the 2011-12 school year. From the SPS website: In the new transportation plan, transportation eligibility for attendance area elementary and K-8 students will be based on transportation zones. Students within the transportation zone and outside the walk zone for a school will be eligible for District-provided transportation. Students outside their immediate transportation zone, but within their extended intermediary boundary, can walk to an attendance…
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McDonald Elementary School meeting, open house, and tours
Interested in finding out more about McDonald Elementary School (114 NE 54th St)? Libby Chapman sent us the following list of upcoming events: Mar 3 – 6:00-7:30pm, General PTA Membership Meeting Mar 8 – 6:30-8:00pm, McDonald Open House Mar 15 – 9:45-11:00am, McDonald Tour Mar 16 – 9:30-10:30am, Tour of John Stanford International School for prospective McDonald parents to learn more about language immersion Mar 23 – 9:45-11:00am, McDonald Tour More information can be found on the McDonald PTA website.
Material salvaged from McDonald Elementary School available to public
Updated 11:15 p.m., Feb. 20, 2011 Reader James Taylor, who works at The RE Store (1440 NW 52nd St), wrote to tell us that the non-profit building material salvage store is currently salvaging materials from McDonald Elementary School (114 NE 54th St). McDonald Elementary School was closed in 1981. In 2009, Seattle Public Schools announced that the building would once again operate as an elementary school. McDonald School opened in the fall of 2010 at a temporary location in the Lincoln High School building (4400 Interlake Ave N). The school will be moved to its permanent location on NE 54th…
Language immersion in 2011 for McDonald School?
This post comes to us from our news partner My Wallingford. Last night about 100 parents met with the McDonald Elementary School principal and Seattle Public Schools representatives to learn more about plans to create an international, language-immersion program at Wallingford’s newest school. When the decision to make McDonald an international school was announced last month, fall 2012 was the target date to begin language immersion for kindergarteners. McDonald principal Cheryl Grinager surprised parents last night with the news that the goal now is for language immersion to begin in two tracks — Spanish and Japanese — for kindergarten and first grade students…
Visit and tour Seattle Public Schools
Open Enrollment for the 2011-2012 Seattle Public Schools school year will take place March 15-31, 2011. Open Enrollment is the best time for students and families to choose the specific school they would like to attend. You can read more about Open Enrollment here and you can find school assignments using an address look-up tool located here. In early 2011, schools will host open houses or tours for perspective families to learn more about individual curriculums and areas of focus. All are welcome at any school tour. Information about tours can be found by scrolling down this page. Here is tour and…
