Skeffington’s in his seventh year as Alki’s principal, and after three of those years in interim quarters at the former Schmitz Park Elementary, he’s excited. He led us on a long-planned tour of his new school earlier this week, along with the district’s project manager Brian Fabella. That’s actually the start date for all but the kindergarteners, who start classes on September 8 9 . And as mentioned above, Wednesday, September 2 is the start of classes for all Seattle Public Schools students except kindergarteners, who will start (updated) on Tuesday, September 8. We asked a district spokesperson about the discrepancy and they confirm that Alki kindergarteners will also start September 8.