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About the School:
Swayzee Elementary, one of three elementary schools in the Oak Hill
United School Corporation. Swayzee houses all the corporation’s 5th
and 6th grade classes as well as our local
kindergarten.
Oak
Hill Schools went to all day kindergarten in the 2004-2005 school
year.
Each student in grades kindergarten through sixth grade will have
art, music, physical education. and library.
In
addition to the above mentioned specials, students also have the
opportunity to participate in orchestra beginning in the fifth
grade, and band beginning in the sixth grade. Additionally, all
students in the kindergarten and fifth grade have the opportunity to
participate in our elementary swimming program, in which each
classroom is transported to the high school for a ten day
(kindergarten is a five day) swimming program. This program
utilizes high school students to offer students individualized or
small group instruction. We have a state of the art computer lab.
The students have a regular computer instructor for a 10-day time
period, twice a year.
Swayzee Elementary exhibits many educational features of which its
staff, students, parents, and community can be justifiably proud.
The warm caring attitude of the teachers, support staff, and
administration, coupled with the supportive attitude of the parents,
provides an environment in which students can achieve maximum
personal growth.
The
staff of Swayzee Elementary is committed to providing each student
with the opportunities necessary to maximize their learning
potential. Since we believe that this is a shared responsibility
between the home and school, the following mission statement has
been adopted.
"The mission of Swayzee Elementary School is to work together with
the community to empower each student with the knowledge, skills,
and high standards that prepare them to be successful, contributing
members of a changing global society."
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