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Contact: (916) 395-4630
Grades: K-6
Enrollment: 318
Mascot: Panther
Uniform: None required
Leataata Floyd Elementary is one of the Superintendent’s Priority Schools. Our mission is to focus on three targets: (1.) Academic Instruction, (2.) Core Belief Systems and(3.) Engaging our Students, Families, Communities. To use a catch phrase, “We hold an ACE up our sleeves!” to promote student success.
These targets reflect the SCUSD strategic plan pillars (Academic Instruction=Career and College Ready Students, Core Belief Systems= Organizational Transformation, Family and Community Engagement=Engaging our Students, Families and Communities) and will align our design efforts to increase student performance.
Think of it as a local version of “Top Chef” with really, really tough judges.
Leataata Floyd Elementary School students taste-tested vegetable dishes crafted by five high-profile Sacramento chefs on Tuesday as part of Food Literacy Center’s fourth annual Veggie of the Year competition.
Chefs Kurt Spataro of Paragary Restaurant Group, Oliver Ridgeway of Grange, Suleka Lindley of Thai Basil, Jay Veregge of The Firehouse and Keith Breedlove of The Culinerdy Cruzer presented imaginative takes on beets, cauliflower, avocado, nopales and collards.
SCUSD’s Child Development Department is offering twice-a-week playgroups for infants, toddlers and parents beginning September 5.
Playgroups provide:
Leataata Floyd Elementary School kindergarten teacher Jennifer Dempsey received hands-on math materials last week from Chevron through the company’s Fuel Your School program.
Fuel Your School is a collaboration between Chevron and DonorsChoose.org. Earlier this fall, teachers posted classroom project requests. Chevron customers help fund the projects by purchasing eight or more gallons of gas at participating stations.
Start Date: June 22, 2015
Estimated Completion Date: August 28, 2015
Construction Description: Campus Drainage/Storm Drain System maintenance
A group of parents who live in the Land Park neighborhood have formed a new nonprofit foundation to raise funds for schools.
The Land Park Schools Foundation (LPSF) has been busy hosting fun events to benefit Crocker-Riverside Elementary School, Leataata Floyd Elementary School, California Middle School, C.K. McClatchy High School and Tiny Tots Preschool.
“We’re trying to make sure all those schools have the resources they need,” says LPSF President Konrad Vonschoech. “If we all get a little bit involved, we’ll all have success.”
The Leataata Floyd Elementary School community honored Nancy Tennyson, outreach director for Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, at its first annual Leataata Floyd Community School Service Award Presentation held on Tuesday, June 4.
Tennyson has been instrumental in creating and leading a partnership between Trinity Cathedral and the school. Over the past decade, Tennyson helped start the school’s Clothes Closet and Weekend Snack Packet program, which provides nutritious food for students.
Second graders from Leataata Floyd and Crocker/Riverside elementary schools walked to California Middle School on June 6 for the annual Second Grade Read-Around.
Small groups of second graders were assigned to pairs of Cal students, who read them books in the quad. A group picture and popsicles finished out the morning.
Thanks to a generous donation from the Crocker/Riverside PTA, all students were sent home with a reading book of their choice. The second graders were excited to see the campus and have some “play time” with the middle school students!
Leataata Floyd Elementary School third grader Romeo Granados recently cut his hair for the first time and donated it to Locks of Love, an organization that supports cancer patients, burn victims and trauma survivors by fabricating wigs out of donated hair.
Says Principal Billy Aydlett: “Out of kindness and concern for others, Romeo cut his hair for the first time in his life and donated it to Locks of Love.
Hundreds of families attended a block party on Saturday to celebrate Leataata “Tata” Floyd, the Seavey Circle activist who inspired the renaming of Jedediah Smith Elementary School in her honor.
Leataata Floyd Elementary School (formerly Jedediah Smith) kicked off the second year of its Family University program on September 27.
At its September 6 meeting, SCUSD’s Board of Education voted to change the name of Jedediah Smith Elementary School to honor Seavy Circle and New Helvetia community activist and school volunteer Leataata “Tata” Floyd. The school is also working to implement its theme for student learning “The Panther Way.”
Mary Hardin Young currently serves as an Instructional Assistant Superintendent with Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD).