Ages Served: 30 months (2 1/2 years) to 11 years old
The Early Learning Center provides a warm, nurturing, Christ-centered environment and is the most flexible early learning child center in Walla Walla. Our programs are led by certified staff who share a common vision of loving, encouraging and appreciating each child as a gift from God. In addition to full-time, part -time, and drop-in child care, and before and after-school care for school-age children, we offer a variety of preschool programs to fit your child's development as well as age.
Grades: K-6
Enrollment: 186
Assumption students score well above the national average on MAP testing
Accredited by the Western Catholic Education Association
We believe that children are unique individuals created in the image of God, with varying abilities, interests, and background experiences. This means we educate the whole child. Our grade school students participate in band, choir, art,play sports, run in miles club, hold food and diaper drives for St. Vincent de Paul, and collect money for our sister diocese in Guatemala. Assumption students learn how to raise and lower the flag properly, read at Mass, clean the cafeteria after lunch, wait tables at parish events, and work together as a community. All while maintaining high academic standards for all students, not just a select few, including over 80% of 3rd graders placing in the top quartile in national assessments of math, reading, and language arts in 2016, and a 2015 victory at the all-city Math Team tournament. At Assumption parents have an active role in the school through decision making, volunteering, and serving on various boards and committees. We offer your child a nurturing environment, academic excellence, and an anchor of stability in a society of changing values. Assumption school is a place where students are passionate and responsible for their faith journey, academic growth, physical development, and social and emotional growth.
The Catholic Church has a rich tradition in education which begins with the true understanding of who man is and for what he is destined. At DeSales, we strive daily to live the advice of our namesake, Saint Francis DeSales, “be who we are, and be that well, to do honor to the Master Craftsman whose handiwork we are.” Educating for life takes its fullest meaning in the abundant life found in Jesus Christ, striving to provide students with excellence in academics, faith formation, and community spirit. Taking into account the dignity, freedom, and unique needs of each student, we provide a rigorous curriculum enlivened by faith within a Christ-centered environment that helps students discover who they are and how to best use their talents as God intended.