About Us

Venice Elementary School first opened its doors in October of 1953. Since that time, VES has a proud history of service to the community of Venice.

Located on the Island of Venice next to Venice High School, VES serves more than 640 students in grades K through 5. VES is also a student center for south county students identified as mentally handicapped, or language impaired. Venice Elementary is a magnet school for students identified as gifted, offering full-time placement in gifted education with certified teachers.

In addition to instruction through the use of the Sarasota County Curriculum, VES students attend weekly classes in a state of the art Science Lab. Foreign language is also offered for all students. Our specials classes include art, music, PE, and technology for all students in grades K through 5.

Venice Elementary has a mandatory uniform policy on Monday through Thursday. Friday will be a free choice day. For further information go to the Uniform Policy/Dress Code link on this web site.

The students at VES routinely score among the top schools in the county on FCAT and Stanford 9 Exams. During the past two school years, the Myakka Chapter DAR essay winner has been a Venice Elementary fifth grader.

In a unique partnership, Venice Elementary and Venice High School work together to provide volunteer opportunities for high school students in elementary classrooms. On a daily basis, many high school students work in a variety of classrooms as tutors, mentors, and teacher helpers. VES is very fortunate to be a sister school to Venice High School.

Venice Elementary School is perceived by parents, students, and staff as a school with high expectations and clear-cut goals. Climate surveys also indicate the school is perceived by all as both safe and orderly.

Vision:

Venice Elementary desires to be a caring and compassionate school in which all staff are given professional respect, participatory management and a wealth of teaching resources. In such an environment, Venice Elementary will produce students who possess knowledge and can utilize that knowledge when interacting with others. We believe in the ability of all students, and envision no achievement gap between any disaggregated segments of our population. We desire to provide an environment for our students in which they may effectively communicate their thoughts and ideas to others and learn from one another. Venice Elementary desires to prepare our students to be healthy individuals academically, artistically, physically and emotionally so that they may be successful participants in our society.

Mission:

While performing individually and in cooperative groups, students will develop and refine life-long learning skills utilizing a variety of instructional and technological systems. This will be accomplished by an exceptionally well-qualified staff, actively collaborating with motivated students, involved families, and the community in a safe, support environment.

Every child, every day ...... whatever it takes.