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
Thank You To Our 2023-2024 Lafayette HSA Annual Sponsors!
These sponsors provide critical financial support to the HSA and to causes that benefit programs in need at Lafayette. Please consider thanking these sponsors yourselves or, better yet, patronized their businesses. Pam Wye and Liz Mandle – Compass – Blue Ribbon...
Lafayette Gives Back is Gearing Up!
For those not familiar with the group, Lafayette Gives Back is a group of community service-oriented parent volunteers who provide needed items to families at both Lafayette and Takoma Elementary, a Title I school only a few miles away, as well as others within the DC...
Welcome to another year of reading!
It’s been a joy having your students back in the library. Below is information about the library, our online collection, and free tutoring. I encourage you to explore Sora with your students, as well as the other resources that I have gathered on the...
Save the Date for the 2023 Lafayette Fall Festival
Lafayette's annual Fall Festival is coming! Saturday, October 28, 2-5pm Come for the games, stay for the haunted house! Pumpkin painting, music, food trucks and more. Volunteers needed now! Sign up here.
It’s Bear Fund Time – Support Our Students Today!
The Bear Fund is Lafayette HSA’s main fundraising campaign - and it needs YOUR help! Last year, in addition to maintaining the programs that make Lafayette so special, the Bear Fund helped replenish classroom libraries and made possible the plans to install sun shades...
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.