Spotlight News
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National Blue Ribbon School
Scott School Recognized as a U.S. Department of Education National Blue Ribbon School
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Kindergarten Enrollment Opens February 1
Kindergarten Enrollment for 2025-2026 Now Open. To enroll in kindergarten in the 2025-26 school year a student must turn 5 years old on or before September 1, 2025.
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Kindergarten Preview -No school for current Kindergarteners
Kindergarten Preview will take place on Monday, March 17th. Groups are organized by the first letter of the child's last name.
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Adaptability
• Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities, roles, and situations.
• Demonstrate agility and resilience in thoughts and actions.
• Respond productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.
• Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.
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Communication
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.
• Use communication for a range of purposes and audiences including to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade.
• Seek, contribute, and respond to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.
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Critical Thinking
• Understand the bigger picture and propose solutions that consider the effects on the whole system.
• Consistently improve the quality of one's own thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing.
• Apply disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.
• Access, evaluate, and integrate information effectively, using appropriate tools and resources wisely, ethically, and efficiently.
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Learner's Mindset
• Embrace curiosity to experience new ideas, while developing positive attitudes and beliefs about learning.
• Possess the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
• Find and maximize opportunities to actively listen and elicit diverse perspectives from others.
• Adopt a dynamic mindset, embracing flexibility and taking ownership, with intrinsic motivation and an eagerness to evolve.
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Global Citizen
• Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others' feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
• Value and embrace diverse cultures and unique perspectives through mutual respect and open dialogue.
• Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through ethical and empathetic behaviors.
• Elicit diverse perspectives and contributions.
Upcoming Events
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Today
8:00 AM - 2:30 PM No school for current Kindergarteners
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8:45 AM - 9:30 AM Kindergarten Preview A-L
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Kindergarten Preview M-Z
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March 24, 2025
7:00 PM Board of Education Meeting
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March 31, 2025
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72% Scott teachers with a Master's Degree or higher
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$1,000 Raised by Scott Club for local charity
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1st Property to be named after a pioneering family
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23 Different languages spoken by Scott families
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Top 10% of Illinois schools - Illinois Report Card
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435 Total Number of Students