School Year 2009-2010

Greetings parents and guardians!

Welcome to our Eli Whitney Elementary School website.  We hope that you find our location on the “information superhighway” to be an additional and important nexus between school and home.  We will strive to update our webpage as frequent as possible without compromising our first priority – providing the highest quality of education we can offer our children.

Eli Whitney Elementary School is an extraordinary learning community where over 400 students and 50 faculty and staff strive to achieve excellence each and every day.   Our highly qualified, caring, and very dedicated teachers seek to find authentic learning opportunities that engage, empower, and educate our eager learners.  During the school year, the students of Eli Whitney are immersed in an enriching educational environment where learning occurs the moment they enter our building and even beyond the buzz of our school-ending bell.  We welcome you to join us in setting high expectations for all members of our great school, and invite you to become active participants in your child’s learning.

There will be many family activities over the course of the 2009-2010 academic year that we encourage you to be a part of.  Open House, our Welcome Back Picnic, the annual Halloween Party, conferences, curriculum nights, Family Bingo, parent forums, concerts, and our end of the year Awards Assembly are just a few of the many parent and student activities that are planned for this school year.  By taking the time to attend any or all of these functions, you can send a strong message to all Eli Whitney students just how important school is.  We thank you for considering this request, and we look forward to seeing you.

Enjoy the remainder of our website and remember to come back often! 

In partnership,

Timothy M. Van Tasel

Principal