Welcome to Parrish, home of the Tornados!

Parrish Elementary was built in the present location to replace the old school building after it burned in September of 1976. The school was housed on mobile classrooms while the new building was being built. In 1979, the whole of Parrish Elementary was again under one roof; it included grades K-8. The type of building was a new concept (four classrooms in a pod with a common area in the middle). So much space that new students can actually get lost going from one section of the school to another. A Head Start class was added in 1981 and in 1986, the 7th and 8th Grades were moved to the High School. A few years later we outgrew the building and in 1989, six classrooms were added to the south end. We now have Head Start through the 6th Grade with 5th and 6th Grades being departmentalized.