Bell Times
School Hours
8:45 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Half Day Dismissal 12:15 p.m.
School Counselors
School Counselors
Jon Anderson
1st and 4th grade
Angela Kruck
Kindergarten and 3rd grade
Courtney Wallace
2nd and 5th grade
Student Support Team
Dean of Students:
Leigh Grady
Student Support Coach:
Loreal Henderson
Student Support Assistants:
Jhedienne Adams
Deandre Bass
Cait Sherwood
Social Worker
Mariela Ramirez
Instructional Coaches:
Kelina Brauss
3rd-5th ELA
Rachel Houser
3rd-5th Math
Lauren Milam
K-2 All Contents
Drop off/Pick up
Students arriving at school after 8:45 am will be counted as tardy.
Parents/Guardians will park in the designated parking lots located next to the car line, walk their student(s) into the building, and sign into Raptor.
Parents/Guardians are permitted to pick up their student(s) early before 3:00pm.
Arrival
Bus Riders enter the building at 8:15 am.
Car Rider Lines run form 8:15 – 8:40 am.
*Note* If you arrive after 8:45 am you will need to park in the back lot and accompany your student into the building to sign them in. Please note: Students arriving after 8:45 will not be allowed to have breakfast in the cafeteria.
Walkers need to enter at the Car Rider entrance starting at 8:15 am.
Dismissal
Dismissal begins at 3:45 pm. All dismissal occurs near the gym.
Bus riders are dismissed as their bus arrives.
Walkers are dismissed on the bus side of the gyms.
Car riders are seated in the gym until their name is called to be escorted outside. If your student misses their name they will be sent to the front office for pick up.
Car line closes at 4:05. At this time remaining students are brought to SACC if registered, or brought to the front office so we can call home for transportation.
Mission, Vision, and Norms
MOTTO
Excellence Beyond Expectations
VISION STATEMENT
All children are empowered to achieve excellence as a community of lifelong learners who take ownership for their holistic development and mastery of a rigorous curriculum.
MISSION STATEMENT
To teach the whole child by providing a challenging, focused, comprehensive, academic program in a nurturing environment.
SCHOOL BELIEFS
• Children need a safe and nurturing environment in which to learn and succeed.
• Education is an ongoing process that engages the student, school, families, and community.
• Children learn best when a variety of instructional strategies are implemented.
• The use of formative and summative assessments guide instruction for all students.
SCHOOL NORMS
• Set and maintain a positive tone
• Respect the role of the leader
• Listen respectfully and actively
• Value each other’s opinions
• Cooperate: share the vision, focus and contribute, using your gifts and talents, to the task at hand
• Professionally hold each other accountable to follow rules and procedures.
HISTORY
Our first building, named the Concord School, was a one-room schoolhouse, completed in 1838, in the community of Hickory Valley. Just over forty years later, it was relocated to the intersection of Graysville and East Brainerd Roads and renamed Mackie School. By 1879, it had become apparent that one room was no longer big enough to house all the students.
Three more moves followed to accommodate the increasing number of students, along with two more name changes. By the early twentieth century, students were learning on the East Brainerd Elementary campus, which was built alongside East Brainerd Road. The school grew with the community and by 2011 East Brainerd Elementary operated on two campuses with intermediate grades housed at the David Brainerd School on Goodwin Road.
Construction began on our current campus in 2013, and almost 1,000 students moved in at the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year. The new East Brainerd Elementary School proudly opened in August 2015 with just under 1,000 students. A tornado in April 2020 caused widespread damage to East Brainerd Elementary, but the school community remained resilient and temporarily relocated to the new East Hamilton Middle School campus in Apison before gratefully returning home in January 2021. Today our student population is over 1,200 students. We are the largest elementary school in Hamilton County and proud to continue serving our community after nearly two centuries!