Editing Pe Ell, Washington (section)

==Education==
The Pe Ell School District provides public education from preschool to 12th grade.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pe Ell School District |url=https://www.peell.k12.wa.us/ |access-date=April 2, 2024}}</ref> The Pe Ell School occupies a single campus and students attend from Pe Ell, as well as the nearby [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated communities]] of [[Doty, Washington|Doty]] and [[Dryad, Washington|Dryad]].

The first public education building erected in Pe Ell was a [[one-room school]] constructed in 1882. The schoolhouse was built of split cedar and funded by donations; twelve students attended the first year. The growing population led to the construction of a new, larger Central school beginning in 1892 only to find an expansion necessary in 1913, with a gymnasium added in 1921. A wing for agricultural vocational education was added in 1936, a class popular enough to require an expansion by 1938. The combined Pe Ell elementary and high school, furnished with a library and athletic fields, was completed at the end of 1952.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pe Ell Had First School in 1882; Built of Split Cedar |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/washington/centralia/centralia-daily-chronicle/1953/06-06/page-84 |access-date=October 17, 2024 |work=The Daily Chronicle |date=June 6, 1953 |page=C}}</ref>

The Pe Ell high school boys' basketball team and the girls' softball team won state championships in 2010. The softball team also won a state title in 2012, and a combined championship with Willapa Valley in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last1=VanTuyl |first1=Aaron |title=A Decade in Review: Looking Back at the Best of the 2010s |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/a-decade-in-review-looking-back-at-the-best-of-the-2010s,6057? |access-date=April 2, 2024 |work=The Chronicle |date=December 31, 2019}}</ref>