Boones Creek Elementary School



Teresa Leonard, Principal
Boones Creek Elementary
348 Boones Creek Christian Church Rd
Gray, TN 37615

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  Recipe for Success:

Boones Creek Elementary is a K-4 school with 58% of the students economically disadvantaged. Our value-added scores are the direct result of the school's motto "Children First", and a school climate enriched with both academic and emotional support.

Activities unique to Boones Creek Elementary are:

  • K & 4th grade Parent Orientation/transitional program
  • Principal assesses results/feedback of Fun-Fact Friday (school-wide timed math fact test (1-4) weekly and every 3rd week school-wide writing prompt.)
  • Tutoring by Career Ladder III teachers & Principal
  • Principal gives motivational speech to students as needed
  • Grade-level meetings with Principal
  • 4th grade organized with both departmentalized & self-contained classrooms offered
  • Parents asked to listen to their child read 20 minutes each night/participation charted
  • Workshops for parents on how to help with reading & math
  • Math manipulatives with research-based strategies
  • Reading/writing/math across curriculum with assessment and on-going tracking
  • Attendance incentives
  • Principal provides school-level inservice study groups. Ex. Ten Best Teaching Practices by Tileston; "Interpreting of Test Scores" by T. Leonard; "Understanding Poverty" by Rita Pierson
  • Principal arranges substitutes while teachers attend staff development
  • Supervisor arranges quality teacher inservice (ex. Marcia Tate, "Workskills Don't Grow Dendrites"; Norma Kemzey, "Language Being Effective Language Arts Instructed Strategies 2/Demo Lesson", Terry Rose "Math Manipulatives"; "Writers and Readers Workshop" based on Lucy Caukin's work).
  • Title V funds to purchase books using research-based strategies
  • Use of Student Individual Improvement Plan sheet kept on each student
  • School Improvement Plan is closely monitored & assessed by leadership team
  • SACS accredited school
  • Believe in having high expectations & goals
  • Collaboration among grade levels
  • Teachers teach "among" students
  • Considered a "full-service" school. Open 11 hours daily (daycare provided), free transportation for dental health, free dental exams, Pediatrician office on campus for past 4 years, occupational, physical, and speech therapy available, special education staff and Title I program available.

Our school has always exceeded the average yearly progress set by the State Department. We hope to continue meeting these high standards.