Shaw Butte Elementary School, in the Washington Elementary School District, serves more than 1,000 prekindergarten through sixth grade children in the neighborhood bordered by Sweetwater Avenue to the north and Peoria Avenue to the South, from I-17 to 15th Avenue. Shaw Butte affords students a rich curriculum aligned to Arizona College and Career Ready Standards. We are currently participating in the University of Virginia turnaround program. The project focuses on improving student achievement through:
• Teacher collaboration;
• Administering interim assessments and analyzing student data results regularly and often;
• Changing instruction, if the data results indicate
Shaw Butte uses Make Your day as our schoolwide discipline plan, which is based on a philosophy that promotes development of an internal focus of control in students. The basic tenets of this philosophy are built on human dignity and responsibility. Students understand that their actions result in fair, logical and predictable consequences that are enforced in a manner that preserves their dignity.
Shaw Butte features:
• Free, full-day kindergarten
• Open enrollment
• Art, music, physical education for K-6th graders
• Instrumental music beginning in 4th grade
• After-school Academy
• Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
• Head Start
• Special needs preschool program
• KidSpace, before- and after-school child care program
• Free breakfast and lunch
• Literacy Lab
• SuccessMaker
The mission of Shaw Butte Elementary School is “Raise the Bar. Close the Gap. Accept NO Excuses.”
