Tacoma’s new Fawcett Elementary will honor its past while thinking toward its future.
The school on East 60th Street is set to open in September to about 450 students. The school’s construction is 70 percent complete.
The previous Fawcett Elementary was built in 1950 and was expanded in 1976. The building was demolished in Spring 2022. The students are currently using McKinley Elementary.
The $43 million project is funded by a portion of the $535 million school construction bond, which voters passed in 2020.
Fawcett Elementary will capture the current times: an individualized learning environment, connectivity to the digital world and a STEAM-supported makerspace giving students the ability to 3-D print, paint and make pottery.
“I want students to love coming to school, to wake up every day and want to be in the classroom,” Sarah Fischer, associate principal and architect at…
