Our Mission

The mission of the Indian Lake Elementary PTO is to assist every child in reaching their highest potential by engaging, empowering and encouraging the teachers, administrators, and staff of Indian Lake Elementary School.

Our Values

Cooperation: We aim to work in partnership with individuals and organizations to broaden and enhance our ability to serve and advocate for all children and families.

Commitment: We are dedicated to children’s educational success, health, and well-being through strong family and community engagement, while remaining accountable to the principles upon which our association was founded.

Diversity: We acknowledge the potential of everyone without regard, including but not limited to: age, culture, economic status, educational background, ethnicity, gender, geographic location, legal status, marital status, mental ability, national origin, organizational position, parental status, physical ability, political philosophy, race, religion, sexual orientation, and work experience.

Respect: We value the individual contributions of members, employees, volunteers, and partners as we work collaboratively to achieve our association’s goals.

Accountability: All members, employees, volunteers, and partners have a shared responsibility to align their efforts toward the achievement of our association’s strategic initiatives.

Join Us!

We invite you to join our mission.

One of the most consistent contributions to our efforts is funding the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) teacher position, which plays a crucial role in enriching our school's STEAM program.

We're excited about the impact we can make together. Whether as a volunteer, a general member or a board member you can directly contribute to our school's mission of academic excellence for all students. Your involvement ensures that every child receives a well-rounded and engaging educational experience.

Clicking the Pay Dues button below to join us in our efforts!

Meetings

Budget

In addition to fully funding the STEAM teacher position, the Indian Lake PTO supports many of the areas of the school including investing in classroom technology, art and music supplies, school landscaping, making sure our teachers and administrative staff know they are loved and much more!

The ILE PTO Supports:

  1. STEAM Program: Teacher Salary, class supplies and more

  2. Facility Related Expenses like playground supplies (nets, balls, outdoor benches, picnic tables, etc.), landscaping, maintenance of grounds, school security equipment and more

  3. Instructional Related Expenses like stocking the teachers supply closet, fulfilling teacher or grade specific needs and more

  4. School Engagement like spirit wear, coordinating spirit nights, fundraisers, coordinating volunteers and decorations for events and more

  5. Other Special Projects such as the recent new gym floors and library refresh and more

There are 4 General Membership meetings throughout the school year. These meetings are open to all General Membership. Meeting date, time and location will be posted on our event calendar. Any changes in schedule will be shared by PTO Social Channels (Facebook and Instagram) and by text (if you’re signed up for SMS communications from the PTO - enabled when submitting your annual dues payment).

These meetings are designed to keep our parents informed about important updates and initiatives. To ensure that we make the most of our time together, we kindly request that any specific issues or concerns be addressed directly through the appropriate channels.

Please send any commentary to: ✉️ President@ilepto.org