Decatur Elementary School

Building our school together

Mission

Decatur is an advanced learning school that fosters the development of environmentally conscious, creative and critical thinkers who are socially and emotionally equipped to engage in a just and sustainable world.

Vision

Our community goal is to instill a life-long passion for learning in an emotionally supportive environment that will enable students to contribute their wisdom, compassion and leadership.

Academics at Decatur

Students at Decatur work on accelerated curriculum one to two grade levels above their same age peers. We align to Common Core State Standards in Math and English Language Arts (ELA), Next GenerationS cience Standards (NGSS) for Science, and Washington State GLE’s for Social Studies. In grades 4 and 5 teachers specialize in a subject are aand students rotate through the teachers for each subject. Most years we have teams where one teacher teaches ELA and Social Studies and the other Math and Science.

Decatur offers Physical Education as part of the core curriculum. Students in grades 1 through 3 work with the STYLE program for music instruction. Students in 4th and 5th grade also have access to Instrumental Music classes.