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About

Powerful Schools is a nationally recognized non-profit based in Southeast Seattle that aspires to promote student success in some of the city’s academically and economically challenged public elementary schools. 


Powerful Schools works inside its ten partner schools every day providing resources such as skilled reading tutors, staff development teams, writing and arts curriculum and extended day programs. 

In the 2007-8 school year, Powerful Schools serves 3,515 students in ten public elementary schools in Southeast Seattle.

Thank you Breakfast Donors

Powerful Schools would like to thank the donors who contributed at our 2008 Fundraising Breakfast

View our 2006 Annual Report. 

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Awards & Recognitions


Powerful Schools has been honored with many state and national awards, including:


Washington State’s Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Education


Washington Association of School Administrators Award for Outstanding Community and School Partnership Programs


Blue Ribbon Best Practices by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development


Community Empowerment Award from the Center for Empowerment


The Seattle Foundation’s Chairman’s Award
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“You’d better believe there is something powerful about this concept of Powerful Schools. In these schools there is hope, something historic, worth sustaining and worth nurturing.”
Dr. Ed Taylor, Center for Educational Leadership, University of Washington