No room to learn: Everett schools bursting at the seams as $400M vote looms

Everett elementary schools are so overcrowded that some students learn in doorways. The district is asking voters to approve a $400 million bond and levy.

EVERETT, Wash. — In Ms. Duhrkoop’s fourth-grade math class at Lowell Elementary, the numbers just aren’t adding up.

The school is about 100 kids over its 400-student capacity. Every seat in Duhrkoop’s classroom is full.

Almost nothing has changed at the 75-year-old school since parent Hortencia Paulk attended decades ago.

“Walking in with my daughter was a huge blast from the past,” Paulk said. “The murals on the walls are the same. I can’t find anything different

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