Elementary Schools
- Images of AISD Elementary Schools
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Becker Elementary School
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Blackshear Elementary School
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Menchaca Elementary School
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Mills Elementary
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Pease Elementary School
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Pleasant Hill Elementary School
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St. Elmo Elementary School
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Sunset Valley Elementary School
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Travis Heights Elementary School
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Zilker Elementary School
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- More information about Mills Elementary School
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- Pre-kindergarten through 5th grade. There were 1,099 students in 2008. The school is named after a former principal of Galindo Elementary. Mills community service includes support of the St. Jude Children's Hospital via jump-a-thon, and to residents in the community who have had a disease or any other life-changing problems.
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- Mills has a variety of after-school programs in which the students are able to enroll. Mills Elementary has its own after school daycare called MASCOT. Mills also has a chess club, a math pentathlon team, 4th and 5th grade choirs, music memory team, and Lego Mindstorms club. Most of these activities last from the end of school to 3:45 in the afternoon.
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- Mills has a number of school traditions. Prominent ones include the raising of the flag on the first day of school and the lowering of the flag on the last day of school, following 5th grade graduation and the end of the year slideshow. The last day of school flag lowering includes staff and students, and many parents and community members, and The Chicken Dance. This tradition has been shown on local news stations and in the Austin American Statesman. Other traditions include Cultural Arts day and Science Day - which typically alternate each year - Track and Field Days, Dr. Seuss character parade, Family Fun nights, Math nights, 5th grade Monster Mash, along with many others throughout the academic year.
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- Mills PTA sponsors events throughout the year that incorporate the faculty, staff and students, including an annual Spring Festival, the well-attended community event Holidays Around the World, the Mills' Amazing Race, and a variety of other events intended to provide academic and cultural enrichment to the students, teachers and staff.
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