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![OSPI State Recognized School logo]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1746564877/lwsdorg/xdqrks5tfevcb5xbijz3/OSPIStateRecognizedSchoollogo.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1746564877/lwsdorg/xdqrks5tfevcb5xbijz3/OSPIStateRecognizedSchoollogo.png","width":325}])
Recognition from State Board of Education, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee
Redmond, Wash. – The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) has announced that 20 different LWSD schools have been recognized through the Washington School Recognition Program for the 2023-24 school year.
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March is Music in Our Schools Month. As we celebrate this observance, the Eastlake High School choir welcomed choirs from Alcott, Blackwell, Mead, Smith, McAuliffe and Carson Elementary.
![Mitch Sims-Fahey, McAuliffe Elementary's Head Custodian]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1729288367/lwsdorg/wargjczgjfd0qzbzg1xc/mitch-sims-fahey.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1729288367/lwsdorg/wargjczgjfd0qzbzg1xc/mitch-sims-fahey.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1729288367/lwsdorg/wargjczgjfd0qzbzg1xc/mitch-sims-fahey.jpg","width":537}])
Meet Mitch Sims-Fahey, McAuliffe Elementary's head custodian and the first staff member to be featured in Superintendent Jon Holmen's Excellence in Action video series.
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Students and staff at McAuliffe Elementary School were treated to a very special end of school assembly this year.
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Students and families celebrated Walk and Roll to School Day at McAuliffe Elementary School a few days early this year.