Northwood Hosting Guided Spring Tours

Mercer Island, WA, March 18, 2026 – Northwood Elementary School will be holding guided Spring Open House Tours will be on Wednesday, April 8 at 10:00am-10:20am OR 10:30am-10:50am at all four elementary schools.

The purpose of the tours is to give prospective families, either on Mercer Island or off, a chance to visit the school on a typical school day and learn more about the school. Community members interested in visiting one of the schools will need to wait outside the main school entrance to be let into the school by a school staff member. The tours will be guided by the school principal and members of the school’s PTA.

MISD hosted a Kindergarten Information Night with the Mercer Island Preschool Association in October. MISD Superintendent Fred Rundle, Island Park Principal Joby McGowan, and Lakeridge Kindergarten Teacher Rebecca Reid, and Lakeridge PTA President Sarah Karim provided families a tangible understanding of daily instruction and practice in kindergarten classrooms, how often subjects are taught, and how often students attend specialist classes, like music, art, PE, and library, and the number of recesses in a school day. They also spoke to families about kindergarten curriculum and took questions from families in a Q&A session. 

For the 2026-27 school year, Kindergarten Enrollment opened on Thursday, January 29, 2026.