Back to school - a clean slate

PALOUSE –– Our long hot summer is turning the page and readying to morph into fall and the beginning of the 2024-25 school year.

The first day of classes for the Garfield-Palouse District will be Wednesday, Aug. 28. On Monday, Aug. 26, the Garfield campus will offer all-day new student registration; please call the school at 509-635-1331 to make an appointment. Later that day, from 5-7 p.m., Garfield Elementary and Gar-Pal Middle School students and their families are invited to campus to an Open House to meet teachers; middle schoolers will also their receive locker assignments.

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