ABOUT OUR SCHOOLCrofton Community School is a K-12 school system fully accredited by the Nebraska Department of Education. The school participates in the Nebraska School Activities Association at a C1 classification. The school system covers approximately 175 square miles, and supports a student enrollment of 484 students in grades K-12, which designates Crofton Community School as the largest school system in Knox County, Nebraska.
Crofton Community School is proud of it's excellent school facilities, having built a new Jr./Sr. high school building and extensively renovating the elementary school building in 1992. Crofton promotes an aggressive academic and extra curricular program, and has become known throughout the state for academic excellence in virtually all areas of the curriculum, depicted by numerous multi-state academic victories in college-sponsored academic contests.
Crofton looks to the future with excitement and anticipation. The school system has established high goals and expectations utilizing the latest in computer technology and learning. Having one of the fastest growing school systems in the Northeast Nebraska area, the district has committed itself to employing the finest instructors to lead the school, it's students, and the entire community with leadership quality into the 21st century.
For more information, please contact the High School (402) 388-2440, Elementary School (402) 388-4357, or by fax (402) 388-4265.
OUR SCHOOL'S PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of the Crofton Community School is to motivate the young people of the community to reach their full potential as persons, students and members of society.OBJECTIVES
1. To teach the ideals of American Democracy, good citizenship and patriotism. To help desirable relationships between students, students and faculty, administration and community through student government, classroom experiences and extra-curricular activities. Mutual respect for one another and acceptance of individual differences are necessary attitudes for instructive social living.
2. To recognize the individuality of each student and seek to offer as many and as varied experiences as possible to help the student develop a healthy attitude toward life in a changing society. To identify individual difference through testing, counseling, teacher/pupil contact.
3. To provide uniform curriculum and special helps to reach all ranges of ability, utilizing college preparatory, vocational, remedial, field trips, area meetings, actual experiences and professional readings to enable the teachers and staff to recognize and analyze these changes.
4. To best equip students to understand and react constructively to our constantly changing society, the school should provide aids such as conferences, field trips, area meetings, actual experiences and professional readings to enable the teachers and staff to recognize and analyze these changes.
5. To encourage students to think objectively, to communicate thoughts clearly.
6. To stress good moral, health and personal habits.
7. To develop communications between the school and the community through conferences, personal contact, public meetings and news media.
8. Financial support form the Crofton community provides the administration, teachers, staff, physical plants, and materials necessary for instruction. It is highly desirable that the community show respect for and support of the educational process, and send it's young people into the system with the proper attitude toward learning.