The Snoqualmie Valley School District includes the valley towns of Fall City, Snoqualmie and North Bend and sprawls across 400 square miles, making it geographically one of the state's largest school districts. The fast-growing area has become an outer-ring suburb of Seattle, and the district has been adding new classrooms and schools to keep up.

The new construction, made possible by a 2003 bond measure, includes the 2005 opening of Cascade View Elementary School in Snoqualmie, a new sports complex at Mount Si High and the 2008 opening of Twin Falls Middle School.

Plans to build a new high school and another elementary school have been put on hold after a a $189.6 million proposal, scaled back from two earlier ballot requests, received a 58.6 percent approval but failed to get the statutory 60 percent approval in March 2008.

Helping to supplement programs and services not funded by the district is the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation, a grass roots organization originally called Citizens For Better Schools that incorporated in 1988.

Superintendent: Joel Aune has been superintendent since 2005.

Alternative program: Two Rivers School.

The numbers: 1.1% African American, 3.1% Asian American, 3.5% Hispanic, 1% Native American, 89.5% White; 8.6% low income, 10.3% special education; 1% ESL.

Funding: In 2006 voters approved a four-year, $34 million operations levy; a four-year, $4 million technology levy and a one-year, $2.6 million bus levy.