Foothill Elementary is a successful neighborhood school with high achieving students, an involved parent community, and a committed faculty and staff. Located in northwest Boulder, Foothill has been educating children for more than half a century. Lifelong learning, academic achievement and world citizenship are integrated within the BVSD curriculum. Foothill is now able to meet the needs all students who live in our attendance area and embrace the growing cultural and linguistic diversity of our community.

Our students are supported by an array of services including Special Education, Literacy, Talented and Gifted, and an ESL program as well as a great number of parent volunteers and a Community Liaison. Additionally, there are many extra-curricular and co-curricular options available to students including PE Field Fun Days, visiting artists, authors and musicians, choir and hand bells, student government, and the Foothill Publishing Center.

Our school has been named a John Irwin School of Excellence for student achievement and a Green Star Environmental School for our waste-free recycling program. Foothill is proud of the partnership it has nurtured between the families it serves, the students who attend and the educators who work here. From school-wide picnics and gardening to parent/teacher committees such as SIT and PTO, Foothill is a collaborative and vibrant learning environment.

Foothill has a well-equipped library media center and a literacy resource room stocked with books to promote individualized progress in reading. Our Accelerated Reading program promotes increased student achievement opportunities. We continue to integrate technology as it becomes more readily available.

The special education team supports students with exceptional learning needs. The resource and Intensive Learning Center (grades K – 5) special education teams work closely with families and other staff to ensure that the learning experience of all students is rich and meaningful.

The ESL program and Community Liaison help meet the needs of students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Foothill strives to provide equitable access to the curriculum for all learners. This is provided by an ESL teacher through small group instruction and support in the classroom. Classroom teachers utilize strategies to help make the content accessible to students learning English. The Community Liaison supports needs of the whole family and welcomes them into the Foothill community.

We offer art once per week for 50 minutes to all students. Students in first through fifth grade have 90 minutes of physical education and 90 minutes of music weekly. Kindergarten students have 45 minutes of physical education and music weekly. All students are involved in research units with our library media specialist. We offer a literacy block for students in reading and writing instruction. The Kindergarten CARE program provides an alternative daycare for our kindergarten students that will enrich their kindergarten experience.