Welcome to Lafayette Elementary School
Our mission is to help our students reach their full potential through creative, challenging, and joyful learning experiences in a supportive, nurturing environment that integrates the arts into all we do. Located in Chevy Chase, DC
Meet the Team
Our talented and caring staff ensures that students thrive academically and socially. Get to know who is on the team!
Our Values
The choices we make are driven by our core values of a growth-mindset, joy, kindness, inclusion, and integrity.
Our Curricula
Our commitment to ensuring every child receives rigorous and joyful instruction starts with the curricula we teach.
School Video Tour
Although we are unable to offer families building tours outside of the regularly scheduled information sessions, we hope this virtual building tour gives you an understanding of the space and the sense of belonging you will experience here!
School News & Updates
Lafayette Budget Update for 2024-2025
Dear Lafayette Families – As you may have read in a note from Chancellor Ferebee, the DCPS budgets for the 2024-2025 school year have been released. The Lafayette LSAT and I have been working this week to start the process of reviewing the initial...
Lafayette Volunteer Mixer and Open House
Please join us upstairs at The Avenue at 7:30pm on March 5 to celebrate the hard work of all our Lafayette Volunteers! Whether you're creating signup geniuses for mystery readers or pulling off the Spring Auction, you deserve a night out! Bring...
Math Team Contest Results
On Friday, February 2 nd we had our second Math Team competition from the Continental Math League. Forty-five students participated and we are so proud of all of them for even showing up and taking on the challenge! Special shout-outs go to our students who placed for...
February Cub Facts is Here!
The theme for this month's Cub Facts is love and Valentine's Day! 4th and 5th Grade students enjoyed writing poems, stories, and comics. They did a great job creating activities and coloring pages too! Our Pre-K and Kindergarten friends are having a lot of...
We Want to Hear from You – Weigh in on the School LSAT and HSA Budgets 2/19
The Lafayette LSAT is preparing to advise Dr. Broquard about the 2024-2025 school year budget priorities. The Lafayette HSA is also preparing its budget. As part of the process, the LSAT and HSA hope to hear what is most important to our community members. As the...
Who We Are
Lafayette is the largest elementary school in the District of Columbia with about 900 students in pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade. We serve students from all 8 wards from over 15 different linguistic backgrounds and believe that our diversity is the source of our strength. We are proud of our academic excellence, talented teachers, happy students, and engaged community.
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Donation Opportunities
We are able to provide our students with incredible experiences with the support of the Home School Association (HSA), who accepts donations all year round.