September is Attendance Awareness Month
Schools Starts at 8:00am
Gates Open at 7:30am
Breakfast is from 7:30am-7:55am
Welcome to Mentone Elementary School where staff, students, and families have worked together to achieve excellence in education since 1949.
Awards and Recognition
- CBEE Honor Roll School (2013 and 2014)
- CA Distinguished School (2006, 2007, and 2014)
- Title 1 Academic Achievement School (2007,2013,2014)
Mentone is a pre-K through 5th grade school where students attend school on an August to June traditional school calendar. Our School works tirelessly to ensure that students achieve within a caring and nurturing environment. In addition to an exemplary regular education program, our school offers programs to meet the needs of every child, including G.A.T.E., English Language Development, interventions for at-risk students, hobby clubs (e.g. chess, gardening, music, CSTARS). A preschool program serving forty-eight 3-5 year olds with an early childhood development curriculum and is housed next door to our transitions/kindergarten classrooms. Our Family Resource Center and P.T.O. involves our families with workshops, family activities, and health support. The Boys and Girls Club and YMCA run a before and after school program to support academics and enrich the learning environment of the regular school day. Mentone School is part of the AVID network to help promote a culture of college and career readiness.
We are an AVID and PBIS campus where studnets and staff practice the ABC's at Mentone Elementary School and where we prepare our students with skills for college and career ready.
Mission Statement
We the educators, community members, parents and staff are committed to ensuring that all our students develop to their fullest academic and physical potential by teaching them to think, so they will make effective choices; communicate, so they will be understood; relate, so others will respect them; build a healthy body, so they can enjoy living; respect themselves and others, so they can live confidently.