Annexed in 1908 In 1902, high school students living in West Seattle began attending the West Seattle School, a combined grammar and high school (see Lafayette). Their basketball games were played in a third-floor gym. W. T. Campbell, father of later Seattle Schools Superintendent Ernest W. Campbell, headed the high school program.

By 1908, when the school was annexed into Seattle, it held over 500 students. Twelve seniors graduated in 1910