ESD 101 mission statement:

Educational Service District 101 promotes educational excellence by delivering essential, cooperative services to schools and other learning communities.

Statutory Mandate Chapter 28A.310 RCW

It shall be the intent and purpose of this chapter to establish educational service districts as regional agencies which are intended to:

1. Provide cooperative and informational services to local school districts;

2. Assist the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education in the performance of their respective statutory or constitutional duties; and

3. Provide services to school districts and to the school for the deaf and the school for the blind to assure equal educational opportunities.

There are nine ESDs in
Washington, each serving a
specific geographic region
of the state.

ESD 101
ESD 101 provides cooperative services to 59 public school districts and 45 state-approved private schools in seven counties of Eastern Washington – Adams, Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and Whitman.

ESD 101 is the state’s largest ESD in the number of districts served, counties served and geographic region served (13,998 square miles). All told, the region counts more than 96,000 K-12 students and 257 individual schools buildings.

The ISD office in the fourth floor of the Spokane County Courthouse circa 1971.