Mission Statement :

We are all learners!Our mission is to provide a solid academic foundation for life long learning.

We believe in:

S - Safe, caring, challenging, learning environment

U - Understanding special needs of individual students

C - Celebrating student diversity

C - Creativity, cooperation, and good citizenship

E - Encouraging student responsibility for learning andconduct

S - Student centered approach to learning

S - Students, parents, and community working together.

About Us :

MidlandElementary School is located at 206 N. High Street in Lacon, Illinois. Lacon (population 2000) is one of three towns that make up the MidlandSchool District. Students who live in Sparland (population 500) and Varna (population 500) and the surrounding rural areas attend Midland Schools. Midland Elementary is one of three attendance centers in the district. Students in grades Pre-K through fourth attend Midland Elementary; fifth through eighth graders attend MidlandMiddle School in Sparland, while high school students attend MidlandHigh School, located in rural Varna. 

MidlandElementary School has three sections of each grade level and is home to about 300 students, 27 certified staff members, six classroom paraprofessionals, one secretary, three cooks and three custodians and one office assistant.MES offers a solid educational program for elementary students, including regular education, special education, speech and language, Title I (all grades), music education, Chorus (grade 4), physical education, computer instruction, library and gifted instruction (grades 3 and 4).