Toone Elementary School educates
children in grades pre-K through eight. Students who live in
Toone,
Cloverport, Silerton and surrounding areas may attend Toone School.
The school serves as a feeder school for Bolivar Central High
School.
Toone School has an enrollment of approximately 275 students.
-
Grades Pre-K - 5 are self contained.
- Grades 6 - 8 are
departmentalized.
- All students have classes in art, library and
guidance.
- All students
participate in music and computer instruction in every
homeroom class.
TES students have the
opportunity to participate in Book Fair, Harvest Festival,
Box Tops 4Education, various field trips, Pizza Hut Book It Program,
Field Day and Diamond Jaxx Honor Roll Program.
School
History and
Facilities
Toone School can be traced to community
owned/operated schools
with records before the 1920’s. In
1928,
the property for the present school was deeded to the county board of
education, who took on the management of the school at that time. At that time there was
segregation in the
school system, and Toone North Side was an African American school
located in a
separate facility. Toone School
was originally a high school, but was changed to a 1-8 school in the
early
1960’s. In
1966, Silerton School
was closed, and the students
were absorbed into the population of Toone Elementary
School. Around
1968, a
kindergarten class would be
added, and Toone North Side was merged with Toone
School
to form the present Toone
Elementary School. The structure present in 1928 was razed in the
late
1930’s and replaced by
a two story wooden structure. The
current building was built
in 1950, with additions made in 1968, 1979, and
1998 as the needs increased with changing populations and changing
class size
limits. The current facility includes a
gym with a stage, a library in a portable classroom, a new kitchen, and
a
dining room that accommodates ninety people, eighteen classrooms, four
sets of
restrooms, and a large playground.
