The 2023-2024 school year was another successful year of learning at Ladson Elementary School. Our school continued to provide a safe, nurturing environment where students are academically challenged in CD through 5th grade. We continue to place academics and student achievement as priorities and our school is helping all students develop the World Class Skills of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by providing a variety of opportunities for students to create and collaborate. Examples of our students employing these skills can be found on our morning news show and our after school Art program and tutoring programs. We also continued with the robotics teams, the basketball team, and the Ladson Running Club this year as well.

Throughout the 2023-2024 school year we have continued our efforts towards ensuring that all students are reading on grade level by continuing to focus on data-driven, skill-targeted small group instruction combined with goal setting and progress monitoring at all grade levels. We have implemented the Data Driven Instruction process and we have continued to intervene with students in need by ensuring adequate time in our master schedule for our interventionists to work with students in small groups in reading. We have also continued our partnership with the Heart Math Tutoring organization. Through these initiatives, we were able to intervene with students in grades 2 - 5 in both reading and math.

At Ladson Elementary School we recognize that parent and community involvement is integral to what we do. We strive to engage our families and school community in the educational process as much as possible. We held parent information sessions, a "Holidays Around the World" celebration, a Family Literacy Night, a Math Night, and continued our annual Science night. We also expanded our outreach to fathers and male family role models and continued our recognition of our Hispanic families through our Hispanic Heritage celebration. Parents were kept informed through school agendas, school wide text messages, weekly call-outs, and social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Remind. With the leadership and support of our Parent Advocate, as well as our Social Worker and Communities in Schools Site Coordinator, parents have been involved in our school and, when needed, linked with community resources in a wraparound approach.

At Ladson Elementary School we believe that it is our responsibility to develop all aspects of our students so that they have every opportunity to excel in today’s society. We continue to provide a safe, challenging, and caring learning environment while nurturing the skills necessary for our students to graduate college and career ready.

Janet Brown, Principal

Carrie Palomino-Azurza, SIC Chairperson