I'm thinking maybe someday I'll have a career as an anchor man. Michael James, student Mountain Brook Elementary School, founded in 1928, is one of four elementary schools in the Mountain Brook City School System and is located in Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. The sixty faculty and staff members of Mountain Brook Elementary School believe in providing an instructional program which focuses on the physical, social, mental, and emotional growth of each of the 560 students. The goal of the faculty is to enable students, kindergarten through grade 6, to function at their highest potential. Mountain Brook Schools take pride in serving as a leader in Alabama in the area of student academic performance.
Technology is integrated into all areas of the curriculum and instruction.
A model Nature Trail is incorporated across the curriculum to reinforce a comprehensive hands-on science program. These are a few of the programs which create an exciting learning arena for students and teachers. It has been such a pleasure to watch the children grow and learn the true meaning of teamwork, and to apply the knowledge they have gained from all the content areas. In order to operate the tape machine, an understanding of negative numbers was needed. Ben Walters, an advanced math student, was so proud that he had that knowledge.