After a vote by Seattle Public Schools board, boundaries of the attendance area for Lowell Elementary will be expanded and a *Spectrum Program will be added in the 2014-2015 school year. 

Boundary changes will increase the existing attendance zone for Lowell to approximately double its size and will now include families who live in the downtown Seattle area between the Puget Sound waterfront and I-5 from Broad Street to James St.

In order to create a centralized location for a Spectrum program in Seattle, Lowell will have a Spectrum Program beginning in the 2014-2015 school year.  The addition of the Spectrum Program will build heavily on the existing Advanced Learning Opportunities (ALO) instructional framework and incorporate the Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration and Reading (WIC-R) methodology to accelerate and target student success in math and reading.

To learn more about Lowell Elementary, you may contact the school at (206) 252-3020 or visit the school website at lowelles.seattleschools.org.  To contact the principal, Dr. Marion Smith, Jr., you can email him at [email protected].

* The Spectrum Program provides a rigorous and accelerated curriculum that challenges students to apply complex thinking skills when working with core skills and concepts. The reading and mathematics curricula are presented at an accelerated learning pace, are focused on grade level expectations that are above students’ assigned grade levels in reading and mathematics, and emphasize an advanced level of complexity and depth.

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