B.F. Day Elementary School is an elementary school located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA, part of the Seattle Public Schools school district. Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... Fremont Fremont is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. ... Seattle redirects here. ... Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area  Ranked 18th  - Total 71,342 sq. ... Seattle Public Schools is the school district for the city of Seattle, Washington. ...

B.F. Day Elementary tile mosaic sign created by students and local artists

As the longest continually operating public school in Seattle, B.F. Day has a significant heritage. The school was founded in 1892, only three years after the establishment of Washington as the 42nd state, on land donated by the Day family, local farmers and landowners. B.F. Day runs a program for the education of homeless children who are brought to the site daily by school bus along with many other pupils, under the city's public schools transportation plan which aims to reduce segregation within schools and give parents choice in their child's education. With recent funding problems in the Seattle School district and, in 2002, 49% of students participants in the free lunch program, and a fundraising efforts are greatly valued by the highly active P.T.A., with activities like the Family Picnic and the Village Project, which involves local businesses and employees in school and community development. 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

The school has benefited from substantial contributions, both in financial and employee envolvement terms, from local firms Getty Images and Adobe Systems. Getty Images, Inc. ... Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. ...