Skamania School District #2 Calendar 2026-2027

Skamania School District #2 operates one K–8 school along the Columbia River, and its week is organized around more than a self-contained classroom routine. Students attend STEAM twice each week in addition to core work, using hands-on projects to connect science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics with real problems. Washington recognized Skamania as a STEM Lighthouse school in 2018, a designation that fits a district whose guiding idea is that the Gorge itself can become a classroom.

The small campus uses overlapping grade groups—such as TK/K, grades one and two, two and three, four and five, and five and six—before a grades seven and eight homeroom and subject schedule. Music, band, physical education, library, counseling and STEAM specialists broaden the program beyond the classroom teacher. Band can begin in fifth grade, and Student Council gives older students responsibility for spirit events and community projects such as Earth Day.

The Gorge also becomes a place for stewardship. Skamania students have worked with community and public-land partners on annual planting and conservation at Sams Walker Trail, while other projects have connected students with salmon and local ecosystems. These activities place science, teamwork and care for public land in the same landscape students see on the way to school.

After eighth grade, families arrange high school in another district. That transition remains an important change in governance, travel and course choice, yet it follows nine years in a local school where multiage instruction, specialist courses, student leadership and conservation work are deliberately combined.