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 Gives Back Fall Initiatives
Here are ways to get involved now: Meal train, coat drive, grocery gift cards! Lafayette Gives Back fall initiatives are underway. Here’s ways to get involved now: Knollwood Halloween Parade - CANCELLED. Unfortunately, due to a covid outbreak in one of their units,...
Recycled materials needed in the art room!
Open art studio at recess is hopping for grades 3&4 especially! What do we need? Cardboard boxes (send those amazon boxes our way please!) Fabric scraps (multiple groups are creating costumes for plays and puppet shows and fabric is hot stuff right now)...
LSAT Meeting 10/18
The Lafayette LSAT will meet on Wednesday, 10/18 from 7:30 am – 8:30 am via Teams. The link is below. The agenda is as follows: Agenda Community Rep and Non-Instructional Roles Updates on CSP and PARCC data- specifically interested in groups of students...
Supporting your child during civil unrest
As the world is watching civil unrest and the pain of what is happening in communities in Gaza and Israel the Lafayette community would like to acknowledge the effect that this may have on the communities and faiths represented. This also applies to all of...
Reminder: No School for Students THIS Thursday, Friday
This is a reminder that this Thursday, October 19th is Parent-Teacher Conference day, and this Friday, October 20th, is a professional day for teachers. There is no school for students either day.
Upcoming Events at Lafayette
Who We Are
Lafayette Elementary School is the largest elementary schools 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.