Plainview Elementary School is committed to helping all students develop the world class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate. To do this, we focus on having a safe and growth-oriented environment for learning. This promotes the atmosphere to meet our vision for students "to achieve their best academically, emotionally, socially, culturally, and physically."

With academics, our students have opportunities to develop good character through guidance classes and other school-wide initiatives in character education. Further, middle-level students investigate career opportunities with an assigned GCDF so that they can transition to middle/high school with the goal of targeting career and life goals. All of this together makes achieving our vision for student growth more achievable as we focus on the needs as well as interests of each student. 

Our hardworking and dedicated teachers continuously refine and improve instruction through extensive professional development opportunities which empower them to practice research based instructional strategies. Our teachers consistently strive to implement new and effective strategies in the classroom so that learning is both relevant and developmentally appropriate. These practices are employed based on student data, teacher observations, and analysis of student work.  Through research proven strategies, students are taught to collaborate with others and employ teamwork to accomplish tasks within classroom instruction with the teacher as a facilitator. These strategies direct Plainview students to apply these problem-solving strategies to real-life situations.

Our school prides itself on building caring, self-driven students who will become lifelong positive contributors to the community. As our school mission states, "we encourage and celebrate success and promote the building of good character in both the school and the community." We believe that all students benefit from a diverse and inclusive environment for learning and growth and our goal is to give students the necessary skills to be successful through school and beyond to become the successful leaders of tomorrow. And we know that this can only be accomplished as parents and community members work together, which is a great hallmark of this "little school with the big heart."

Beth Melton, Chair of the School Improvement Council

Dennis L. McDaniel, Principal