Tonawanda
Elementary School

An Author Visit and Opportunity to Buy Her Books!  Jennifer Holm, an author will visit Tonawanda on October 4th!  Our third, fourth, and fifth grade students (and grades 3 and 4 from Swanson Elementary, too) will have the opportunity to learn from Jennifer Holm.  All K - 5th grade students are welcome to purchase books and have them signed by the author on the day of her visit.  The order form is linked here.  If you are interested in ordering, please send in orders to school by next Wednesday, 9/26.  Thank you to Boswell Books for bringing these great programs to our students!  

If your child will attend Tonawanda next fall, we would like to invite your child to attend our Tonawanda Kindergarten Orientation on Friday, May 4th in the morning.

In our ongoing efforts to make our schools as safe as possible for our students, the Board of Education approved updates to the 2018-19 school year calendar that will result in students not attending school on voting days. Read more to review changes.

Our 2017-2018 Student Senate members wanted to work on a school newspaper this school year. Articles are written by any student in grades 3-5 and then submitted to our Student Senate Editors.

Terry Little, 4th and 5th Grade Band Teacher at Dixon and Tonawanda Elementary, recently accepted the opportunity to present at the world-renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Amanda Filkins, 4th and 5th Grade Orchestra Teacher at Dixon Elementary and Tonawanda Elementary, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, February 27. Amanda is survived by her husband and two young children.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction released school report cards this week, naming Tonawanda Elementary as a school that "Significantly Exceeds Expectations" with a composite score of 94.0.