Damman School District Calendar 2026-2027

Damman School began in a building that was moved on skids to its present rural Kittitas Valley site in 1893. More than a century later, School District No. 7 still operates one K–5 school there. Roughly four dozen students learn in two multiage groups, kindergarten through second grade and grades three through five, giving the campus a structure shaped by broad age bands, with no separate room for every grade.

The two-room arrangement affects the substance of the school day. Teachers plan across several grade standards, children see work from adjacent ages and whole-school events involve nearly every family. The parent-teacher organization supports activities and field experiences, while the district may accept students from outside its boundary when space allows. Damman remains a small public choice for some households as well as the neighborhood school for surrounding farms and homes.

The local program once extended through eighth grade, but today the largest transition comes after fifth. Sixth-graders enter another district for middle and high school, taking on new transportation, teachers, activities and calendars. Damman’s contribution to that longer journey is a distinct elementary childhood: two multiage classrooms in a historic schoolhouse community, followed by a carefully prepared move into a much larger secondary world.