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Overview

Educational Service Districts (ESDs) connect and empower Washington’s school communities. Since 1969, we’ve partnered with school districts to:

  • Share resources that expand learning opportunities
  • Create solutions tailored to each community’s strengths
  • Transform OSPI’s initiatives into meaningful action

ESDs work with school districts in their regions to improve education for all students. In addition to sharing resources and information, we help the State Superintendent and State Board of Education connect state rules with local needs. We provide services to ensure every student gets equal chances to learn and grow. By filling gaps between what individual districts can do alone and what students need, we create stronger schools and better results for all learners.

Our region comprises 44 school districts, a Tribal Compact School, and private schools across Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston counties. Through collaboration with Washington’s eight other ESDs in the Association of Educational Service Districts (AESD), we multiply our positive impact statewide. ESD 113 builds on community strengths by creating partnerships, leading cooperatives, directing grants, and developing targeted services that respond to local needs.

ESD 113 believes that if we systematically collect, analyze, and act on feedback, we will build stronger systems, empower our ESD team, and better serve students and communities. Our Board of Directors adopted the following ecosystem in June 2025. We are spending 2025–26 gathering feedback from staff and school communities to determine how we will hold ourselves accountable.

Rooted and reaching, we rise:

  • ROOT: Rooted in community wisdom and lived experiences, we care for and learn from our staff, students, families, schools, and the land.
  • REACH: Reaching across disciplines and districts, we co-create pathways and learning networks to elevate student and professional growth.
  • RISE: Rising in collective power, we boldly organize and act to ensure educational justice.