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The staff and administration of Rosspoint Elementary School would like to extend to you a warm welcome and thank you for taking the time to visit our web site. We possess a neighborhood atmosphere in which the school serves as a focal point. The culture, goals, and values of each community are respected and valued by all school personnel. This appreciation of the community allows diversity; yet parents, teachers, and students across the district share a common focus. Together we all work to provide the best education possible for each individual child.

Our Mission :

The faculty of Rosspoint Elementary accepts responsibility to lead all students in obtaining knowledge, skills, and self-descipline to become productive individuals in society, to foster a love for learning, and to promote creativity and self-direction in all students with the awareness that all students are to be treated as individuals with unique needs, interests and abilities, and to ensure everyone a safe and secure learning environment.

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." --Clay P. Bedford

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." --Bill Beattie

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." -- Author Unknown