History
The school was constructed in 1936. It is on the corner of Garfield and Ninth Avenue, North, in a primarily inter-city, residential neighborhood.
Jones has operated as a Paideia school for the last thirteen years, initially as a K-8 school known as Buena Vista-Jones Paideia. When the school district opened a Paideia middle school at Buena Vista, Jones was restructured to a K-4 program called Jones Paideia. Buena Vista later moved to a new facility at John Early Middle School, and the middle school Paideia program was discontinued. Due to the many changes of faculty and staff throughout the years, the school district contracted with the National Paideia Center for faculty training. They began training during the 2002-2003 school year and trained on one Paideia Component each year, beginning with Seminar. All formal training was completed during the 2004-2005 school year. This year the school has focused on the implementation of all Paideia components with continued monitoring and training through technical site visits from the National Paideia faculty.
In 1996, students of Jones Paideia successfully petitioned the Tennessee General Assembly to designate "My Home Will Always Be in Tennessee" as the state's official bicentennial school song.
Currently, Jones Paideia serves approximately 360 students in kindergarten through fourth grade.
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