About Arcadia Elementary

Welcome to Arcadia Elementary School! We are part of the Tuscaloosa City Schools, located near the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Arcadia Elementary School was originally built in 1966, and has a current enrollment of 400+ students in Pre-K through fifth grades. Arcadia is a warm and inviting, newly constructed neighborhood school, with strong community ties. Our mascot is “The Little Stampede" and our students promote to Eastwood Middle and Paul W. Bryant High.

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Arcadia Elementary School is dedicated to educating all students to the highest levels of academic achievement, to enable them to reach and expand their potential, and to prepare them to become respectful, resourceful, responsible, and resilient members of society.

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Academic Achievement

Arcadia Elementary School serves more than 400 students in grades pre-K through five. Our faculty and staff work to facilitate an environment that is positive, innovative and nurturing. We deliver explicit instruction to meet the needs of individual students to ensure that all students are college and career ready. By collaborating with all stakeholders, we are able to give our students an opportunity to become leaders. Teachers and staff care about our students. Teachers work to plan engaging activities that help prepare students for college and career options. Arcadia also puts a focus on character education and soft skills needed to be successful.

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The Stampede Way & Arcadia's Core Values

The Stampede Way

Take charge of yourself; you are responsible for you.
Show respect; every person is important.
Give your best effort; your work represents you.
Listen to others and they will listen to you.

Arcadia Elementary School implemented "The Stampede Way" at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. Our focus is on positive behavior and character education. We have had the opportunity to send two cohorts of teachers to Hope Academy in conjunction with Samford University to bring back positive behavior strategies that can be used with our students. Every student is assigned to a herd and has the opportunity to build positive relationships with students in every grade level while forming bonds with other teachers in the school. There is a time set aside in the schedule every morning to focus on character development that we call Stampede Time. It is our belief that to best serve our students we must prepare them socially, emotionally, as well as academically.

Arcadia's Core Values

Be Respectful.
Be Responsible.
Be Resourceful.
Be Resilient.

Our Herds program started in the 2023-2024 school year. Every student is sorted into a Herd Team (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue) that represents one of our school's core values, and our teams work together to define what each value looks like at Arcadia. As our Herds groups do more work, we will update our student-led core values to reflect their ideas and perspectives.

Arcadia Elementary School

3740 Arcadia Dr.
Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
205-759-3567

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