Center Elementary School

Mission
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School Motto:

Where all Students Soar to Success.

School Vision

The school atmosphere exemplifies a community of learners where staff and parents continue to learn along with the students.  We strive for a positive environment where smiling faces and supportive comments are the norm.  Students, staff and parents interact with each other with respect, working together, as a team, to help their child achieve success. 

Mission Statement

The mission of the Center School community is to develop the total child: academically, socially, and emotionally and to help each child identify and cultivate his or her greatest potentials in order to live a successful and fulfilling life.

Profile
Center is one of five elementary schools in the Travis Unified School District. The school was built in 1958, and presently has 26 classrooms. The site has a very large playground and also 4 acres of grassed playing field on the top deck. Currently, there are 487 kindergarten through fifth grade students enrolled. The majority of students are military dependents (U.S. Air Force).

Community support for the school is strong, especially in support roles. Community members provide direct support to students and teachers by working in the classrooms and the Library Media Center. The Parent Teacher Association has been very active and has provided fund raising activities which have helped support field trips assemblies, and instructional material to the school.

We intend:  

·        To provide a place where staff, students, and parents can share in the teaching\learning process and feel free to communicate their individual needs.

·        To provide a place where staff, students, and parents feel a sense of safety and a positive atmosphere for teaching and learning.

·        To provide an atmosphere where staff, students, and parents can communicate their concerns to the teachers and administration.

·        To provide a school program designed to address the wide variation in physical, intellectual, and social-emotional development of the students, including handicapped and special needs students.

·        To provide students with an academic program that will assist them in attaining an achievement level appropriate to their abilities.

·        To provide a process of student evaluation which reports the many aspects of development and requires substantive parent, teacher, and student involvement.

·        To provide a setting which promotes self-discipline and encourages personal and collective responsibility.

·        To provide a setting that develops the respect for the rights of individuals, encourages free expression of ideas, and fosters openness to the beliefs of others.