Oakland Elementary School helps all students develop the world-class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by providing academic and social experiences within a safe, supportive, and engaging environment. Our school’s success is the result of providing students with the chance to be creative, work collaboratively, and build life skills. 

We have a continued commitment to providing personalized learning through differentiated instruction in both reading and math and utilizing our school’s 1:1 technology. We also encourage student ownership of learning through the use of success criteria and providing students with feedback. Students are also provided an opportunity to participate in school clubs and various service learning projects. 

We also focus on the areas of health, wellness, and social-emotional well-being. We utilized our walking and nature trails to keep students active and students participated in the SPARK PE curriculum. This year we continued Hero Habits—a character program that helps students to develop and practice life skills. We also monitored our students' social-emotional health and provided small group and individual counseling to meet their needs.

When you visit our school... We want you to see us involved in: rigorous learning activities, making new friends, technology, reading, writing, thinking, making decisions, solving math word problems, reflecting, guided reading, guided math, discussions, conferences with our teachers and peers, and picking out a just right book. What we also want you to see is our school is full of happy kids who love learning in a place that we feel safe, happy, and loved!

We had an amazing school year and are thankful for all of our OES students, parents, guardians, and teachers. We are so blessed to partner with families as we work together for student success. We love serving our students! 

Lora McKillop, Principal

Kristin Fekete, SIC Chair