Pasco School District (Washington)
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Pasco School District # 1 serves over 11,500 school children from the City of Pasco, Washington
and unincorporated Franklin County. It operates eleven elementary schools, three middle schools, a four-year high school, and an alternative secondary school. There are over 700 teachers and 600 support staff. The annual operations budget for 2005-06 is $91 million.
Pasco, Washington
Pasco is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Washington, United States.Pasco is one of three cities that make up the Tri-Cities region of the state of Washington...
and unincorporated Franklin County. It operates eleven elementary schools, three middle schools, a four-year high school, and an alternative secondary school. There are over 700 teachers and 600 support staff. The annual operations budget for 2005-06 is $91 million.
Elementary Schools
- Captain Gray Elementary School
- Edwin Markham Elementary School
- Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...
Elementary School - James McGee Elementary School
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
Elementary School - Mark TwainMark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
Elementary School - Maya AngelouMaya AngelouMaya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
Elementary School - Robert FrostRobert FrostRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
Elementary School - Rowena Chess Elementary School
- Ruth Livingston Elementary School
- Vergie Robinson Elementary School
- Whittier Elementary School
Middle Schools
- John McLoughin Middle School
- Isaac StevensIsaac StevensIsaac Ingalls Stevens was the first governor of Washington Territory, a United States Congressman, and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War until his death at the Battle of Chantilly...
Middle School - Ellen OchoaEllen OchoaEllen Ochoa is a former astronaut and engineer, and current Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center.-Personal life:Ellen Ochoa was born on May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, but considers La Mesa, California to be her hometown...
Middle School - Discovery Alternative Middle School
High Schools
- Pasco High School
- New Horizons Alternative High School
- Chiawana High SchoolChiawana High SchoolChiawana High School is a new high school in Pasco, Washington, which opened on August 31, 2009. The second high school of Pasco School District #1, their mascot is the Riverhawks and the colors are blue and silver. The school opened with 1600 students in grades 9, 10, and 11...