Story by Victoria Holcomb
College View Elementary, home of the Little Lynx, was built and ready for students to come and learn in only days before the ribbon cutting on the 16th of August during their back to school night. At this back to school night the Abraham Lincoln mascot the Lynx came and took pictures with the students as well as high fives and hugs. The choosing of their mascot was due to an online voting pole, committee meetings, along with the notation of the high school. Abraham Lincoln, home of the Lynx, schooling several hundred students daily is only right down the hill from where College View Elementary was built, it seemed like a perfect fit. Besides the indication of being right next to Iowa Western, the name of College View seems to match perfectly to the mascot chosen.
College View has the ability to have growing neighborhoods with all the open land around them, along with increasing enrollment with several schools in the district closing. Enrollment goals were not only met but exceedingly high for being a new school with no housing anywhere near. With extremely high enrollment all the classes are packed full, but all the kids seem to love their school.
“As far as it seems; all the kids like their new school, are extremely excited to come every day and seem to brag about it to all their friends,” said Mrs. Rice, Principal at College View.
And even with the chaos of College View being a new school, all the talk and large enrollment numbers everything still seems to be going very smoothly. All the parents are great, supportive and adaptive to the change in placement of where his or her child or children are being educated at. While sitting in their cars waiting for that bell to ring at 3:35, these parents wonder what kind of story his or her child will tell them that day, while, all the students are getting lined up and ready, chatting amongst themselves, all looking very happy and anxious.
This elementary school, unlike all others in its district offers a Spanish course to students that wish to enroll in it. College View is known as a candidate school for primary years program and is pursing authorization as an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. Which wants students to commit high quality; challenging, international education which the school thinks is very important to their students. Besides being an IB league school, the teachers and parents and staff only want the best, and all the normal characteristics still apply.
College View can effect several people in AL because of the new teachers that work there and all of the new students that attend. Emma Preston ‘14, is effected by this this indirectly. Her little sister is in first grade as well as her mother who has started teaching there this year.
“The faculty is nice, education is great and school has a great facility,” said Emma Preston, ‘14.
With only a start to this school year; there is still plenty of room for change and improvement to school staff and education. College View is viewed by students and staff of AL alike as a great place for kids to be.
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