Welcome to the Olympia Elementary Classes
of OHS Class of 1974
- 1961-62 Kindergarten, 62-63 1st Grade, 63-64 2nd Grade, 64-65 3rd Grade, 65-66 4th Grade
66-67 5th Grade, 67-68 6th Grade.This page is updated regularly. Please send any new or better pictures to art@OlyClassOf74.com
Boston Harbor School
7300 Zangle Road NE
Established in 1900’s as part of Boston Harbor School District. Original school was built in 1938 as a Work Progress Administration (WPA) project. Consolidated with Olympia School District in 1964. Named after the community which began in 1906 as a summer retreat for local residents and vacationers. New building opened in 1991
Mascot: Bruins
Boston Harbor School fed Washington Middle School then the new Reeves Middle School in 1970
James A. Garfield Elementary
325 Plymouth Street NW
Established in 1852 as “The Westside School” on Rogers Street, which served all children in West Olympia. As the area grew, particularly after the platting of the Woodruff and other subdivisions, two other schools were established in West Olympia to serve the smaller children who had difficulty making it from the north end of West Olympia to the site on Plymouth Avenue. The name of the school was changed in the early 20th century to honor President James Garfield.
A new structure was erected in 1930 adjacent to the original structure, with a design by Joseph Wohleb very similar to the Lincoln School building erected about the same time.
In a controversial move, the Olympia School District was permitted to demolish the historic Garfield school building in 1987 and replace it with the current building in 1990.
The Story of Olympia’s Garfield Elementary School – ThurstonTalk
Mascot: Wolf (or as Mr Reily called us, The Wolverines, now known as Garfield Cheetahs)
Garfield School fed Jefferson Junior High
Griffin School
Griffin School District served portions of Thurston County to the northwest of Olympia. The district operates one K-8 school, the Griffin School. High school students attended Olympia High School and then Capital High School in the adjacent Olympia School District. Griffin School District operated buses to the high school.
John Rogers School
2400 15th Avenue SE
The Olympia Regional Learning Academy (ORLA)
opened in 2006 in the old John Rogers Elementary
School. It is home to the District’s Homeschool
Connect, iConnect Academy, and Montessori
programs. The new ORLA building opened in
January, 2015.
Mascot: Raiders
Lincoln School
213 21st Avenue SE
The First Lincoln School was built in 1890. A second school opened in 1923 with the Mission style characteristic of prominent Olympia architect Joseph Wohleb, who was the Olympia School District’s official architect at the time. The building replaced the earlier structure at a location a few blocks to the north of here, also called Lincoln School. It is a large, handsome stucco building with stylish ornamentation at roofline and throughout. The building was renovated in 1995 but retains its original features and is on the local register. It is still used as an elementary school. Now used as the district’s alternative Options Program.
Mascot: Loins
Lincoln School fed Washington Junior High
LP Brown Elementary School
2000 25th Ave NW
Built in 1965, using the western most students of westside’s Garfield School. Six more classrooms were added in 1969 with expansions in 1997 and 2006.
LP Brown School fed Jefferson Junior High.
Mascot: Eagles
Madison School
Central Street
Madison School was opened in 1956. In 1999 Madison was relocated to 1225 Legion Way.
McKinley School
2637 45th Avenue SE
Originally built in 1908 and established in 1960. Replaced by a new Centennial Elementary School in 1989, remodeled in 2018 and reopened in 2020.
McKinley School fed Washington Junior High
Mascot:
The Olympia Regional Learning Academy is now at the parcel once occupied by McKinley Elementary.
McLane Elementary School
200 Delphi Road SW
Established in 1883 and consolidated with the OSD in 1966. The 4th McLane School was a stucco studio built in 1942 as a WPA project. The 5th McLane School opened in 1987 and remodeled in 2018.
McLane School fed Jefferson Junior High
Mascot: Owls
Roosevelt Elementary
1417 San Francisco Ave NE
Established in 1908 with a two-room schoolhouse. The second Roosevelt School was opened in 1923 called “The Annex”. The third school opened in 1949 and a fourth in 1989. It was remodeled again in 2019.
Roosevelt School fed Washington Junior High and then Reeves Junior High
Mascot: Ravens
St. Michael’s School
South Bay School
3845 Sleater Kinney Rd Ne, Lacey
South Bay Elementary is a public school located in Lacey, WA, which is in a fringe rural setting, next to the OSD. It is part of North Thurston School Dist 3.
- South Bay Elementary was built in 1949 on 17 acres, in a rural setting. In 1981, the original building was demolished, and a new building was attached to the 1976 addition. The fire suppression system utilizes three 35,000 gallon tanks repurposed from the old Olympia Brewery.
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