Indian Trail Elementary

At Indian Trail Elementary, a MicroSociety Magnet School, our Cardinals Cooperate, Always Try, are Respectful and Responsible Citizens, and are Eager to Learn (CARE). We educate all students, encouraging them to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens. Together, we envision an academically excellent and community-spirited program in which all students will be performing at the Proficient level by 2020.

School Highlights:

• National-award-winning MicroSociety Magnet Program offered to elementary Cluster 6
• MicroSociety Guiding Principles: Student Voice and Choice, Learning by Doing, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Real-World Experiences, Teachers as Facilitators, Shared Responsibility and Authority, Partners as Contributors
• We offer 1:1 Chromebooks for first through fifth grades.
• Together, we envision an academically excellent and community-spirited program in which all students will be performing at the Proficient level upon completion of the fifth grade.
• Offers a range of extracurricular activities, including Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP), Academic Team, Robotics, and sports teams
• Recognized as a Health Promotion School of Excellence (HPSE) and as a Green School
• Provides instruction in special areas, including arts and humanities, computer skills, physical education (PE), and music
• Offers Cardinal Club, a mentoring program for all third, fourth, and fifth graders that pairs 150 college students with Cochran students for one hour each week, one-on-one, to discuss subjects like math and reading, and offers the opportunity to discuss college and career readiness
• Offers the Primary Talent Pool
• Cochran is a Signature Partnership Initiative School with the University of Louisville and a professional-development school that houses a Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) classroom on site that offers up to five college classes each week for preservice teachers.

Offers a state-of-the-art, first-of-its-kind, Virtual Reality (VR) laboratory where up to 25 students can step into the world of VR. Students can go back in time, travel to historic sites, or even sit courtside at a University of Louisville (UofL) basketball game.