PORT ANGELES – Should Stevens Middle School get a name change?
Or should it keep the name of Washington’s first territorial governor?
A Port Angeles School District committee narrowing down possibilities for a new name for Stevens Middle School – or keeping the Stevens moniker – will start taking written community suggestions this week.
The district’s Elementary and Middle School Transition Teams were set up to explore issues surrounding the moving of students this fall that were triggered by the closing of Fairview Elementary School in June, converting Roosevelt Middle to an elementary school and realigning grades.
The shifts are necessitated by declining enrollments and lost revenues to the school district.
Stevens, which would take on a new role by housing the district’s seventh- and eighth-grade students on the campus at 1139 W. 14th St., might get a name change to reflect that role.
Opened in the early 1970s, it is named after Isaac I. Stevens, the 19th century territorial governor.
