Washington Elementary is a Pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade elementary school in midtown Omaha, NE.  Washington has a special education classroom, three Deaf and Hard of Hearing (K-6) classrooms, and a Resource Room.  

All Washington Elementary students receive services from a full-time Library-Media Specialist, itinerant art, music and physical education specialist. 

Washington Elementary has a nurse, health aide, an Instructional Facilitator and a counselor on staff. 

Some Washington students also receive services from an English as a Second Language teacher.  

At Washington Elementary, students have access to the Positive Action Center (PAC Room).  PAC is staffed with a trained facilitator to reinforce positive discipline.  There they will have a positive redirect to learn a life skill and head back to class.  Students return to the classroom ready to be successful and continue learning.  

Washington Elementary has a history of families with many second and third generations who live in the neighborhood and attend the school.  Washington opened in 1923 with a four-room unplastered structure.  In 1926 the first wing of the permanent brick building was ready for use.  Additions in 1929 and 1936 completed the building until the addition in 1974 of a satellite kitchen.  Attendance in the K-8 building grew to 662 in 1959.  With the opening of George Norris Junior High, Washington became a K-6 school.

The first administrator of the school, Mrs. Martha Phillips, was a teaching principal.  Many have followed in her footsteps. Our current principal is Alicia Gillespie.