The Carleton W. Washburne School and the Skokie School are dedicated to providing our students with a strong, comprehensive core of academics, experiences in the fine arts, guidance in well-being and physical education, and the development of an attitude that learning is a life-long process.
Integrated learning is a hallmark aimed at developing the student's ability to discover, to interpret critically, and to understand connections between ideas. We are committed to diversity in learning styles. Through these diversities, our hope is that students will develop the powers of intelligence through applications of reflective observation and critical analysis, experience opportunities for choice and decision making, and develop and enhance the art of questioning.

The Carleton W. Washburne School is a 7/8 middle school, part of a two-building campus. Approximately 400 young people attend Washburne. Our school was named for the district's superintendent, an internationally recognized progressive educator and visionary, who served from 1919-1943.