Valparaiso Community Schools

Be respectful and be nice. Be responsible that’s the advice. Be safe all day long. Don’t make choices that are wrong. At Central Elementary in Valparaiso, we end each assembly by singing our school song. We, along with all Valparaiso Community Schools …

During the first days of school, elementary school students all across Valparaiso were being asked, “What does STEM stand for?” Some knew right away, while others had no idea. Once every student learned that STEM stood for Science Technology Engineering …

If you are reading this, you probably wanted to learn about how the students in Mrs. Rainey’s fifth grade class worked with one of Mrs. Gioia’s eighth grade classes to create fantastic social studies collaboration projects. I, myself, being a 5th grader …

Building a stronger village to support Valparaiso students has taken precedence this year for the newly formed Valparaiso Community Schools Culture and Student Services Team (CSST), composed of Director Cicely Powell, Home-School Advisor Michelle Bush, and …

From the preschool to the boardroom, hundreds of teen mentors are LEADing the way in Valpo Schools! Mentoring, in multiple forms, provides the foundation for our entire VCS LEAD System. Our district-wide pro-social student empowerment framework consists of …

For the last month, 2nd Graders at Memorial and Parkview Elementary schools have been hard at work on an interdisciplinary project in art class that was based on the book, Rainbow Fish. Students created larger than life 3D watercolor Fish which were used in …

Every morning two smiling faces await students as they enter the front doors of Memorial Elementary School in Valparaiso. Another two smiling faces offer a compliment, a helping hand, or a joke outside the library. Still other students rush off to their …

Each elementary will offer two identical meetings for roundup. Please choose the one that best fits your schedule. Children, who are entering kindergarten in the fall of 2015, and their parents, must make arrangements to attend. During the meeting, all …

Valparaiso Community Schools is announcing an exciting Arts Festival entitled: Spring into the Arts. Spring into the Arts is a new, month-long festival for the ENTIRE community, brought to you by Valparaiso Community Schools. It is a concept organized and …

Fourth grade students at Memorial Elementary had the opportunity to connect with Indiana’s geography in a unique way. A giant map of Indiana created by Ken-Simmons and sponsored by the Geography Educators’ Network of Indiana was rolled out onto …