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In March, the Olympia School Board hired Tacoma-native Dick Cvitanich) to be its new leader, replacing longtime superintendent Bill Lahmann who was scheduled to retire in June. Address: 1113 Legion Way S.E., Olympia Phone: 360-596-6100 Web site: www.osd.wednet.edu
TUMWATER
Address: 621 Linwood Ave. S.W., Tumwater Phone: 360-709-7000 Web site: www.tumwater.k12.wa.us
OTHER PUBLIC DISTRICTS GRIFFIN SCHOOL DISTRICT, northwest of Olympia, serves about 670 students. The district operates a K-8 school, and contracts with the Olympia School District to send its high school students
Address: 6530 33rd Ave. N.W., Olympia Phone: 360-866-2515 Web site: www.griffin.k12.wa.us RAINIER SCHOOL DISTRICT, southeast of Lacey, serves about 930 students. The district operates an elementary school, a middle school and a high school. It is led by superintendent Tim Garchow. Voters approved a four-year $6.76 million M&O levy in 2012. The district’s general fund budget for 2011-12 was about $7.69 million. Address: 307 Alaska St., Rainier Phone: 360-446-2207 Web site: www.rainier.wednet.edu ROCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT, southwest of Tumwater, serves about 2,370 students. The district operates a primary school for grades kindergarten through two, an elementary school for grades three through five, a middle school, a high school, an alternative school and Maple Lane School, a school for students in the state juvenile system. It is led by superintendent Kim Fry. Voters approved a four-year, nearly $15 million M&O levy in February. Address: 10140 Highway 12 S.W., Rochester Phone: 360-273-5536 Web site: www.rochester.wednet.edu STEILACOOM HISTORICAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, northeast of Lacey, serves about 5,500 students and operates a primary school, three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. In May, the district announced that it would close its K-8 virtual academy that served students throughout the state at the end of the school year.
The district is led by superintendent William Fritz. Voters approved a four-year operations levy in 2010. Address: 510 Chambers St., Steilacoom Phone: 253-983-2200 Web site: www.steilacoom.k12.wa.us TENINO SCHOOL DISTRICT, south of Tumwater, serves about 1,300 students. The district operates two elementary schools — one for grades kindergarten through two and one for grades three through five — one middle school and one high school. The district is led by superintendent Russell Pickett. Voters approved a four-year, $11.31 million levy in 2012. Address: 301 Old Highway 99 N., Tenino Phone: 360-264-3400 Web site: www.teninoschools.org
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The Tumwater School District is the third-largest school district and has about 6,300 students. The district is led by superintendent Mike Kirby, who was hired in 2010. Its 2011-12 general fund budget totaled about $60.5 million. Tumwater operates two comprehensive high schools, an alternative program for high school students in grades 10-12 called Secondary Options, two middle schools, and six elementary schools. Tumwater also runs New Market Skills Center, a training program for students that attempts to meet the demands for skilled employees by regional industries. New Market is a consortium of 25 high schools in the region, and serves juniors and seniors in public and private high schools and students who are home-schooled. New Market is a public high school, so its programs are free to attend. Students can learn trades as diverse as banking, culinary arts and veterinary science.
to Capital High School. It is led by principal-superintendent Greg Woods. Voters approved a two-year, nearly $4.6 million M&O levy in February. The district’s general fund budget for 2011-12 was about $7.4 million.