Editing Spokane, Washington (section)

===Public and private schools===
[[Spokane Public Schools]] (District 81) was organized in 1889, and is the largest public school system in Spokane, and the second-largest in the state, as of 2014, serving roughly 30,000 students in six high schools, six middle schools, and thirty-four elementary schools.<ref>{{cite web |last=Emerson |first=Stephen B. |title=Spokane: Early Education |work=Essay 8723 |publisher=HistoryLink |date=August 8, 2008 |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/8723| access-date = October 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=District Profile |publisher=Spokane Public Schools |url=http://www.spokaneschools.org/Page/54 |access-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-date=January 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107015906/http://www.spokaneschools.org/Page/54 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other public school districts in the Spokane area include the [[Mead School District]] in north Spokane County, outside city limits. A variety of state-approved, independent [[charter school]]s and private and [[Parochial school|parochial]] elementary and secondary schools augment the public school system. The [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane]] manages ten such schools in & around the area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catholic Schools, Diocese of Spokane |publisher=Catholic Diocese of Spokane |url=http://www.dioceseofspokane.org/find_school.php| access-date = December 7, 2014| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210201959/http://www.dioceseofspokane.org/find_school.php| archive-date = December 10, 2014 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>