Elysian Heights Elementary School has been educating children since 1915. It teaches prekindergarten through sixth grade and is is a Title 1 Academic Achievement Award winner. In recent years the school launched a visual arts program with an emphasis on pottery, theater, dance and visual arts. The school has an organic garden as well as a computer lab. In the '50s the school adopted a gray-striped tabby cat called Room 8, who, although no longer living, remains a beloved character at the school today. The school has 16 teachers. Veronica Herrera Lynch is the principal.