• To offer a program to meet the academic, intellectual, social, moral, physical, and emotional needs of the elementary school child.
• To develop the basic skills necessary for learning and for the art of communication.
• To encourage the use of all the learning processes: inquiry, exploratory, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, and convergent and divergent thinking.
• To provide experiences that strengthen the students' belief in the democratic system by shaping attitudes, stimulating beliefs, and providing knowledge.
• To teach by example and instruction an acceptance of differing cultural and ethnic backgrounds and that each individual has worth and should be treated with dignity and respect.
• To prepare the students to be adaptable to his/her future world by teaching flexibility.
• To employ the use of technology to deliver a comprehensive curriculum.
• To enrich the curriculum through a fine arts elective rotation program.
• To provide a varied curriculum to develop the total individual.
• To encourage a better understanding of the needs of our students by working with parents and community.
• To strengthen the student's educational experiences through the use of community resources.
• To provide opportunities to develop habits and attitudes necessary for future employment.
• To provide continuous and timely evaluation, assessment, and feedback to make students and parents aware of their progress.
• To teach a sense of responsibility to self, family and community.
• To teach and model exemplary character.

Mission

Milam Elementary School will serve our community by providing a quality education where students are learning, achieving, and succeeding.