Chinook is a Title I elementary school providing approximately 500 students a comprehensive instructional program for grades K-5. The staff emphasizes essential academic skills as well as the development of critical citizenship and life skills, such as the abilities to mediate conflict and develop working team relationships.

Chinook offers parents the choice of enrolling in the neighborhood program or in the open-optional program. In addition to classroom teachers, the school also has music, art, library, health/social-emotional learning and physical education teachers, plus two bilingual tutors. Itinerant teachers include psychology, speech, Indian Education, occupational and physical therapy, band and orchestra.

Chinook staff has committed to improving student achievement by participating in focused and intensive staff development to increase our knowledge and skills as teachers.

Chinook is fortunate to have two active parent associations, the PTA and Chinook Optional School Association. These associations work together for the benefit of all students and are able to provide many enriching experiences for our students. Our focus on building reading comprehension skills continues throughout all grade levels. We help our young students learn to read so that as they grow older, they can read to learn.