William Cullen Bryant Elementary School

Bryant Elementary School is an engaging learning community located in the Ravenna-Bryant neighborhood of NE Seattle. It is a vibrant neighborhood school that works hard to provide a safe, positive, welcoming, and nurturing learning environment for its students.

It enjoys a beautiful, recently remodeled building, a historic renovation of the school that has served the community since 1918.

Throughout its long history, Bryant has been known for the commitment of its volunteer corps and its excellent teachers. For many families, Bryant is the hub of the neighborhood.

Our Community

The Bryant community is highly involved in the education of its children. Parent Volunteers enrich the offerings of the school in many different ways from fundraising, to governance, to work parties, to teacher support, and plain old fun.

Bryant is known for its speech, science, and art programs, annual drama productions, and many after school activities, including the very competitive Chess Club, sponsor of regional tournaments.

Many programs enrich learning for Bryant students including parent/child book groups, Math Championship, Global Reading Challenge, Writer’s Celebration, Science Fair, Instrumental Music, school-wide assemblies, field trips, and cultural events.

Our Vision

At Bryant we teach, model, and encourage a love of learning, collaboration, and compassion for others.

The Bryant Way: We take care of ourselves. We take care of each other. We take care of our school.

Our Mission: A Bryant Citizen…

• accepts the talents and differences of others
• acts as a community steward and is aware of community events
• seeks knowledge, values learning and cultivates (explores, develops, capitalizes upon) personal strengths/talents
• appreciates the fine arts including drama, dance, music and the visual arts
• practices life-long health skills of emotional and physical well-being and sportsmanship
• aspires to academic excellence via the development of an innovative, creative and multi-perspective approach to learning and problem solving utilizing available resources and technology

Standardized Testing at Bryant

Bryant students perform very well on all standardized tests. We do not take this level of achievement for granted and work hard to ensure the greatest possible learning opportunities for our students.

School leadership is focused on ensuring strong, collaborative teaching teams and deepening the alignment of curriculum from kindergarten to fifth grade.

Academic Achievement at Bryant

Academic Achievement at Bryant is focused around the school vision statement and its “Portrait of a Bryant Citizen.”

The “Portrait of a Bryant Citizen” describes a student who,

• accepts the talents and differences of others
• acts as a community steward and is aware of community events
• seeks knowledge, values learning and cultivates (explores, develops, capitalizes upon) personal strengths / talents
• appreciates the fine arts including drama, dance, music and the visual arts
• practices life-long health skills of emotional and physical well-being and sportsmanship
• aspires to academic excellence via the development of an innovative, creative and multi-perspective approach to learning and problem-solving utilizing available resources and technology

Bryant is a school that values learning and values its children and families. Students perform very well on all standardized tests. We do not take this level of achievement for granted and work hard to ensure the greatest possible learning opportunities for our students.

School leadership is focused on ensuring strong, collaborative teaching teams and deepening the alignment of curriculum from Kindergarten to Fifth grade.