Mission: Valley View Elementary School is a results-driven, collaborative community of educators, parents and community members working together to educate all students to be life long learners and productive citizens.
Vision: Teaching And Learning Every Day
We believe:
- All students can learn and will be challenged to reach their full potential, in a safe learning environment.
- Students will be provided with a variety of effective, research- based instructional approaches.
- The student management system is geared toward development of self-discipline for a productive learning environment.
- Basic values of responsibility, dignity, trust, honesty, teamwork, and appreciation of cultural diversity will be modeled and taught.
- Student progress will be continually assessed, and results used to guide instruction.
- A partnership with home and school is essential to maximize student instruction.
- Valley View Elementary has an enrollment of about 500 students, serving students from kindergarten through 6th grade.
- We are on the same time schedule as all elementary schools in Boise, 8:40 - 3:15, with morning and afternoon kindergarten sessions.
- We have a large playground and field area, with lots of play equipment and blacktop areas for basketball, tetherball, four square, hopscotch, and jump rope. Our fields are used for school activities as well as community football and softball leagues.
- Our gym is used for our daily PE program, for boys and girls basketball activities in an after school instructional program, and also by Y-ball and other community groups. The building is frequently used in the evenings as a meeting place for community and neighborhood organizations.
Valley View Elementary School was built at the same time as Maple Grove and Owyhee Schools, and opened in September 1969. Valley View and Owyhee were both built with "pod" classrooms, wherein three classes of students meet in wings connected to a central meeting area where supplies and audio-visual equipment are kept. The school's eighteen classrooms have movable walls and were originally meant to facilitate team teaching.
Valley View is located on Milwaukee Street, which has become one of the busiest streets in Boise. The school is also just down the road from Capital High School, and well-organized crossing guard teams have their jobs cut out for them in the early morning hours. The school has a large playground which borders the adjoining neighborhood.
Valley View probably got its name from the Valley View School District which once existed in West Boise. This District, for which the formal name was Common District #7, was annexed into the Boise District in 1941.
Valley
View Elementary School
3555 N. Milwaukee St.
Boise, ID 83704
Phone: 208.854.6370 Fax: 208.854.6371
Boise
School District
8169 W. Victory Rd., Boise, ID 83709 |
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