 The money made by the district in the sale of the lumber from the property partially paid for SWIS' construction.Opened for the 1965-66 school year as South Whidbey Elementary, then renamed South Whidbey Primary School when the Intermediate School was built, and now part of the combined South Whidbey Elementary School (2009).It shares its design with several schools built at the time in Washington, including an elementary school in Oak Harbor.