Sharon Elementary School is a Title I school celebrating its 30th year of providing a quality education to the students of Newburgh’s southeast side. The school is located on an eighteen-acre site that also includes a track, soccer field, baseball field, playground, and adequate parking for all school events. The school services kindergarten through fifth grades.
Providing a safe and secure learning environment for all students is our number one concern. Every classroom has been equipped with a first-aid kit, emergency flip-chart, and emergency plan guidebook. Four larger, more complete emergency tubs have been strategically placed in the school to provide additional supplies to students in the event of an actual emergency. The school has an elevator to provide assistance to all injured or physically impaired students wanting to go from one floor to the other. Also, during evacuations from the building, two exterior ramps are accessed in order to get second floor students out of the building safely and quickly.
There are 34 classrooms in the building currently serving 680 students. The school staff includes a full-time principal, home/school advisor, speech/language pathologist, school nurse and health aide, 25 homeroom teachers, three additional art and music teachers, two special education teachers, two Title I teachers, and 14 support staff personnel. The school also has a school psychologist, behavioral specialist, occupational and physical therapist available if needed. A morning and afterschool daycare program is provided through the local Y.M.C.A. for all of our working parents.
Many school activities are available to the students of Sharon Elementary School. Students may participate in the fifth grade team sports of girls’ volleyball, boys’ basketball, girls’ pep squad, girls’ basketball, and the fourth and fifth grade team sport of boys’ and girls’ track. Fourth and fifth grade students may also participate in our intramural athletic program; spell bowl team, and math bowl team. Peer Mediators is a school-wide conflict deterrent and resolution program that enhances a safe and peaceful learning environment through helping to resolve student conflict in the third through fifth grades.
Many school wide educational programs are very prominent in each school day. DIBELS testing occurs in kindergarten through second grade and ACUITY testing occurs in grades three through five. Rocket Math, Accelerated Reading, STAR Reading, STAR Math, Odyssey, and the Character Counts! framework are school-wide programs. Students displaying exceptional character are recognized weekly over the announcements and through our school-wide newsletter called the SHARON SCOOP. Sharon Elementary School was also one of the first schools in Indiana to participate in the online ISTEP+ test.
A very active Parent Teacher Organization provides support to the school with an extensive group of parent volunteers. Activities sponsored by our PTO include a Fall Festival, Read-A-Thon, Family Reading Night, and multiple school activities. Volunteers are constantly in the school providing an additional educational resource to students in need.
Ashlee Bruggenschmidt is the Principal at Sharon Elementary School. The school office telephone number is (812) 853-3349.
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Upcoming Events
End of Year Medicine Pick-up (info)
WCSC Cafeterias will no longer be accepting checks after Friday, May 7th Free Summer Lunch Program
From July 1st-July 30th , we will be offering free breakfast and lunch to anyone age 18 and younger at Chandler Elementary and Studio Bee in Boonville. Breakfast will be served from 7:30-8:30 am and lunch will be served from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm. We will also be offering free breakfast and lunch at Oakdale from June 21st – 25th, Oakdale and Tennyson from July 19th to July 30th. Please come join us! (flier)(menu)
