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Principal
Tina West
School calendar
Traditional
Lunch hour
K 11:50
5th 12:00
6th 12:05
4th 12:10
1st 12:25
2nd 12:35
3rd 12:40
Registration
Students can be registered from 8:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on regular school days.
Extracurricular programs
Students are provided with additional assistance in reading by trained high school and adult volunteers.
Reading tutoring services are coordinated by a para-educator funded through
School Trust Lands. After and before school tutoring for math and reading
is provided by faculty members and funded through QTSA.
Students have the opportunity to participate in Math
Olympiad, National Geography Bee, Science Fair, USU Junior Engineering, Authors
and artist in residence programs, and a variety of other enrichment activities
as a result of school level fundraising and the allocation of School Trust Land
funds.
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School background/span>
Mill Creek Elementary opened in 1956. Most of our 430 students walk to
school. There are 23 teaching stations. We have three classes each in K and 1st
grade, and two each in
2nd through 6th. Beginning in 2007-08 we are offering an extended day
kindergarten. A district co-op preschool is also located at the school.
In addition to our regularly enrolled students
who live within our boundaries, we are home to approximately 50 students who are
co-enrolled through the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind (USDB). These
students are transported to Mill Creek from around the Salt Lake Valley and
beyond. We have fostered and inclusion model of education which we believe
benefits all of our students in their academic and social development.
Mill Creek has a reading coordinator who has been successful in recruiting and
supporting reading volunteers. Cross age tutors, high school students, and
adult volunteers provide additional reading opportunities for students reading
below grade level benchmarks.
Through the coordinator's efforts and the allocation of School Trust Land Trust funds, we have
developed an extensive leveled library used both in our tutoring program and by
classroom teachers.
Over the last three years we have adopted the
Interconnections Curriculum for social studies and science and Open Court
2002 for language arts. At the beginning of the 2006-07 school year,
we introduced the Everyday Mathematics program. With each of these
programs, the faculty has engaged in ongoing professional development and
support in order to insure their effective implementation.
We are proud of our designation as
a Community of Caring school. Our faculty and student body are committed
to living the values of respect, caring, family, responsibility, and trust.
Students participate in service learning as part of their classroom activities.
Enrollment
Mill Creek serves 430 students K-6.
80.14% Caucasian
12.15% Hispanic/Latino
1.24% American Indian
1.48% Pacific Islander
3.22% African American
1.73% Asian
Computers and
technology
One computer lab with 30 computers. Students are scheduled to spend time on a computer each week. Computers
with internet access are available in every classroom. Internet access. Mini labs are available in every grade level.
Student promotion
Students promoted from Mill Creek will progress to Evergreen and Granite Park Junior High and then to
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