We Believe
BRUCE
• learning skills develop and
mature from consistent
decision-making, critical
thinking, and interpersonal
experiences
Elementary
School
• all school stakeholders should
set and maintain high
expectations for our scholars
• scholars must receive
ongoing formal and informal
assessments to help drive
instruction and eliminate
achievement gaps
• parents, staff/ faculty,
scholars, and community
members are vital to
educational success and must
work, plan, and make decisions
together to ensure scholar
success
• a safe, inviting school
environment is conducive to
learning and has a positive
effect on the lives of students
• we can identify and address
individual students’ needs
• each student is a unique
person, with dignity and worth,
and has the ability to learn
We Believe in
Academic Excellence.
Our Mission
Bruce Elementary
School prepares
children to become
confident lifelong
learners, creative
problem solvers, and
responsible citizens in
their communities
and in the world.
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Bruce Elementary School
581 South Bellevue Blvd
Memphis, Tennessee 38104
901.416.4495
Inspiring Life
Long Learners
Through the Arts
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Open Enrollment
Our Vision
Creating a safe, challenging, and diversified learning environment that will foster academic
excellence and creative problem solving.
Establishing a partnership with our stakeholders who work collaboratively to help each student
succeed.
Using research-based instructional strategies to meet the needs of individual learners and address
various learning modalities.
Educating students to read, write, comprehend, and apply accurately.
Educating students to observe, think creatively, reason, solve problems, and to develop the tools to
make strong sound decisions.
Providing students the opportunity to operate, learn about, and utilize new technology to enhance
their learning outlets and prepare them for an ever-changing world.
Maintaining high expectations and standards for all students.
Recognizing that all learners are different.
Teaching students to become responsible, compassionate, and contributing citizens.
Assessing, monitoring, and diversifying current teaching practices and assessment tools to equalize
and make more efficient the learning process.
Empowering our students to be responsible for themselves, their experiences, their knowledge, and
their abilities to achieve their dreams.
We are
more than
your
school next
door
Library
Visual Art
Physical
Education/Health
Orff Music
Strings Music
Chorus
Piano Lessons
Provided Interventions
English as a Second
Language (ESL)
Instructional Resource
Speech
Guidance
Creative Learning in a
Unique Environment
(CLUE) Site-based*
Pre Kindergarten
SPED Pre- Kindergarten