About Us

FFC8's ultimate goal is to prepare today's youth for tomorrow's responsibilities. In order to do this, the school must listen to and provide opportunities for students to express how they feel about their school. The charts below represent student responses to questions about safety, academics, culture, and connection. The survey is administered twice a year. The most recent results are displayed below.  

Our entire staff takes great pride in the achievement of your children. We have worked diligently to develop a deep understanding of the Colorado Academic Standards, and provide an engaging learning experience as we help students demonstrate mastery in content areas. Additionally, we recognize the importance of the arts, physical education, and technology in preparing students to be exposed to areas where they may develop a passion outside the classroom environment. We hope that their experience at Mountainside Elementary School helps them to identify activities they wish to pursue throughout their life.  We are proud of our wonderful students and their many accomplishments. Their success is truly a team effort between their parents, our teachers, and our school support staff and parent volunteers. 

The staff of Mountainside Elementary school is able to support students academically by providing 22 classroom teachers in kindergarten through fifth grade, 2.5 interventionists funded through the Title I program providing remediation supports in the areas of English Language Arts learning and Mathematics instruction. Our enrichment opportunities allow students to receive instruction from teachers of music, physical education, art, and library/media. We provide additional support for students with specialized needs through a teacher providing students learning English as a second language, a special education department supporting students with moderate learning needs, providing speech therapy, and assisting students through our Affective Needs program.

Social-emotional needs are supported primarily by our school counselor and our school psychologist, but we also have the benefit of having a psychologist from Evans Hospital who is able to support students who attend Mountainside Elementary School and their families with therapeutic services, and a Military Family Life Counselor (MFLC) who is able to provide support to students around situations that are unique to the military population we serve.

Student health and school safety are priorities at Mountainside, and in response to the unprecedented circumstances facing schools these past 2 year Fountain-Fort Carson School District has made it a priority to have a full-time school nurse supporting students, and through a building and district partnership with the leadership at Fort Carson, we have the good fortune of having a full-time School Resource Officer who is either a military police officer or a Ft. Carson police officer staffed to our building.

Finally, behind the scenes, none of this could happen without the personnel to support these efforts. Our building is maintained by a building manager and two evening custodians, three building secretaries who keep the office running smoothly, three food service personnel serving breakfasts and lunches daily, an instructional coach who works primarily with teachers to improve the classroom experience for students and enhance student learning, and of course, our assistant principal and principal. 

We look forward to engaging with our parent community this year through the work of our School Accreditation and Accountability Committee and through our MountainTOPS organization.

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