2025-2026 School Supplies

Instead of school supply lists, Lawton has created a supply fee for the 2025-26 school year of $40 per child. Send your student with a backpack, a water bottle and a pair of headphones labeled with their name in the fall. We’ll have the rest waiting for them.

Lawton’s Building Leadership Team supported the move to a fee because it: 

• Standardizes the supplies students have in the classroom;
• Ensures teachers have all the supplies they need on the very first day of school;
• Allows discrete and consistent provision of supplies for families in need; and
• Eliminates the need for families to spend time trying to find that particular brand of pencil, color of folder, or pack of glue sticks that has the requested number;

Mass purchasing supplies has allowed us to significantly reduce the average supply cost per family. Let us know if we can provide your child with a free backpack, water bottle or lunchbox. Scholarships/waivers are available if the fee would be a financial burden for your family, so please reach out to Jessica Luke at jaluke@seattleschools.org with any questions or requests.