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
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...
The Lafayette Bear’s Garden needs your help!
The garden is maintained by parent volunteers and families who have adopted a garden bed. (located to the right of the main entrance near the Kindergarten playground) This fall we're hosting classes on Thursday mornings and could use your help. No...
Lafayette Math Club & Team
Math Team has started and Math Club is coming soon! Both groups meet before schooland we have included some information below. We will be having a Math Clubinformation session soon and have sent out flyers with classroom communication thathas more details so be on the...
Calling all 3rd Grade parents!
The morning drop-off line is staffed by Lafayette parents, and each month we ask parents from a specific grade to volunteer. The drop-off line for October is assigned to 3rd grade and will begin on Monday, October 2nd. For those of you not familiar with this volunteer...
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.