Parents can find out what is going on at Kenwood by visiting the PTA Web page. Portland Elementary, an Accelerated School, also is a community-based school whose mission is to build and strengthen a safe, positive, and respectful environment for students, staff, parents, and the community. To emphasize Portland's vision of unity of purpose, students wear uniforms. As an Accelerated School, Portland values its students' special gifts and provides engaging academic opportunities that build on students' strengths, involve high expectations, and promote the acquisition of problem-solving skills. Sanders provides a strong comprehensive elementary education program in reading, social studies, and hands-on mathematics and science classes.
Sanders places a special emphasis on the visual and performing arts.
Students can learn to play stringed instruments using the Suzuki method, thanks to the Weisberg Strings Scholarships for Children Endowment administered by the University of Louisville. Students also receive music education through Orff instruction, recorder classes, chorus, keyboard classes, band, and orchestra. Parents are expected to join the PTA and share their talents and leadership through School-Based Decision Making committees and class and school activities. Semple students have good business sense, thanks to the school's business and banking curriculum. This mathematics-intensive program teaches students how to make money and how to save the money they earn.