Grande Reserve Elementary School opened in the fall of 2006. We are presently beginning our fifth year. GRES is a K-6 grade school that also houses a Special Education Program, Life Skills 1-4, from Kendall County Special Education. This model may be "old hat" to many of you raised in the last half of the twentieth century, but it is a move towards neighborhood schools and away from transitioning to grade leveled centers. This model was suggested by our Citizen's Advisory Committee comprised of community members, parents, educators, and other school personnel. The CAC, teachers, students, and parents worked together to prepare Grande Reserve for its students.

MISSION STATEMENT

Grande Reserve Elementary School provides an experience-centered, challenging, and well-rounded education for a diverse community. Recognizing that students have a variety of needs at each developmental stage and learn in different ways, GRES is committed to helping each student reach their full potential: cultivate a passion for excellence in academics, the arts, and athletics, celebrate our cultural differences and our common humanity, achieve a sense of emotional and physical well-being, learn to think critically and creatively, develop a life-long love of learning, provide a positive classroom environment that fosters student learning.