Bates Elementary

As a family-friendly academic environment with a focus on the whole child, Bates Elementary develops the academic, social, and emotional needs of every student. Our programs include a schoolwide approach using Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits to enhance every student’s ability to maximize their potential and reach academic success. We are a nationally recognized Leader in Me School, focusing on building leadership skills within our students from kindergarten through fifth grade.

School Highlights

• National Board Certified Teachers, Google Certified Level I and II Teachers, and Apple Certified
• Teachers. All of our teachers have been trained in the Jan Richardson’s Guided Reading Model, providing differentiated guided reading instruction. Teachers are involved in the Kentucky Reading Project.
• Comprehensive counseling program with two fulltime certified counselors who deliver college/career, social-emotional, and transition services through small-group, individual, and classroom guidance
• Access to Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP); Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); and student-led newscast production (WBES) with green screen
• Performing arts program with full-time music, art, and drama teachers as well as band, orchestra, choir, and musical theatre performances
• With the 5x5 Fund for the Arts Grant, students experience live art performances in collaboration with StageOne Family Theatre, Kentucky Center,
• Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, and the Louisville Orchestra.
• Student activities: basketball, cheerleading, tennis, soccer, cross-country, Quick Recall, Future Problem Solving, safety patrol, G.I.F.T.E.D. Girls group, fifth-grade service learning projects, Backpack Ambassadors
• The Student Lighthouse Team develops and runs monthly schoolwide LEAD assemblies.