About Our School

Welcome to our website! We hope this website helps provide our parents and community members with more current and up-to-date information regarding our school.

Finland Elementary School services the needs of nearly 600 learners in Kindergarten through 4th Grade.

Finland is a school that provides high expectations for learners by personalizing and individualizing instruction. The students and staff pride themselves on maintaining an outstanding environment for learning by practicing the seven core virtues that are cornerstones of the Basic School Concept. These virtues provide students with a blueprint of how to treat each other as well as how to maximize student, staff and family efforts in regards to academic and social growth.

Finland Elementary is also a school-wide Title I building. Title I is the nation's largest federal assistance program for schools. The program provides all children with the help they need to be successful in school.

Your Right to View Teacher Qualifications

Under the No Child Left Behind Education Reform Act, parents have the right to request information regarding the qualifications of their student’s classroom teacher including:

• If the teacher has met state qualification and licensing criteria for the grade level taught;

• If the teacher is teaching under emergency or provisional status;

• The teacher’s baccalaureate degree major, certification, and field of discipline;

• Whether the student is provided services by a paraprofessional and if so, their qualifications.