We Are
Tempe Elementary Schools
Welcoming, achieving, eye-opening, and future-ready Preschool-8 education to free the boundless potential in each child - so they are fully prepared to embrace the opportunities of tomorrow and excel for a lifetime.
In 2024, we celebrate a deep legacy spanning 150 years rooted in a close knit community that has a long standing, proven history of welcoming, believing, and investing in all its students.
Our history has been instrumental in who we are today and how we build a new way forward in modern elementary education, shaping and defining the future-ready Tempe Elementary student. We believe in freeing the boundless potential in each child, welcoming all walks of life to learn, explore, and discover their gifts while also developing a passion for the community. We are committed to cultivating learning environments and experiences designed to ignite potential, inspire a love of learning, and introduce students to a world bigger than their own — inside and outside of the classroom.
Focused on achievement for all, our strategic plan has resulted in 15 out of 22 Tempe schools receiving letter grades of A and Bs from the Arizona State Board of Education in 2023-24. We seek to continuously improve, evaluate and hold our staff accountable within a rigorous framework that allows learning flexibility for both teacher and student while serving individual needs.
Tempe is a responsive, close-knit “global” community that recognizes the essential role that meaningful parent involvement plays in establishing effective learning environments. Together, the district, staff, and parents are encouraged to work together to lift up all students, freeing the boundless potential in all children. As a result, we proudly serve a diverse student population of 10,000, speaking over 70 languages, with more than 2,000 students choosing Tempe from outside the district.
Our mission is to ignite and prepare our students for a lifetime of core skills to succeed at the highest level imaginable, while becoming significant future contributors of their community.
- Superintendent Dr. James Driscoll
Explore Tempe Elementary
Celebrating 150 Years of Tempe Elementary School Excellence
Our Brand Dimensions
OUR BRAND PROMISE
Free the Boundless Potential in Each Child
This is the commitment we make to all who choose us.
Welcoming, Believing, Invested
Our Community Dimension
Tempe has a 150-year heritage as a Welcoming, Believing, Invested community that invests in all its students — and we proudly carry that legacy forward today.
Achievement for All
Our Belief Dimension
We believe that all children want to learn, can learn, and demonstrate success in individual ways. Our academics, instruction, assessment tools, and support services work together toward Achievement for All.
The Confident, Future-Ready Child
Our Outcome Dimension
Our students are equipped with the core skills, critical thinking, adaptability, communication tools, community mindset, and empowered sense of self they need to take on new challenges and succeed in a world of change — today, tomorrow, and for life.
Eye-Opening Discovery for the Boundless Classroom
Our Experience Dimension
We inspire individual potential and love of learning through capable, flexible, innovative environments, learning platforms, and experiences — in the classroom and beyond — that introduce students to big ideas and a broader world than their own.