Joe Dan Mills is a Pre Kindergarten-5 Grade Public school

School

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 located in Austin

Austin

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, Texas at 6201 Davis Lane near Loop 1 and is the largest elementary school in the AISD

Austin Independent School District

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 school district with 1,099 students as of 2008. The school mascot is a mountain lion and the school color

Color

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s are purple

Purple

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, blue

Blue

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, and white

White

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. Mills Elementary is named after Joe Dan Mills, a former principal of Galindo Elementary. The current principal

Head teacher

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 is Patricia Butler. Mills is an exemplary school. Mills community service includes support of the St. Jude Children's Hospital

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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 via jump-a-thon, and to residents in the community who have had a disease or any other life-changing problems.

School song

Do you have pride, do you have pride are you a Mills Mountain Lion? Yes I am! Do you have dedication to your education? Yes we do! We're Mills Mountain Lions, we're confident and brave. We try harder than the rest, we're ready for a challenge and we always do our best. We're Mills Mountain Lions, hear us roar: Mills is grrrrrrrreat!

After School Activities

Mills has a variety of after-school programs in which the students are able to enroll. Mills Elementary has its own After school daycare

Day care

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 called MASCOT. Mills also has a Chess Club

Chess club

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, a Math Pentathlon team, 4th and 5th grade choir

Choir

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s, Music Memory Team, and Lego Mindstorms Club. Most of these activities last from the end of school to 3:45 in the afternoon.

School Traditions

The school has a number of school traditions. Prominent ones include the raising of the flag on the first day of school and the lowering of the flag on the last day of school, following 5th grade graduation and the end of the year slideshow. The last day of school flag lowering includes staff and student, and many parents and community members, dancing The Chicken Dance. This tradition has been shown on local news stations and in the Austin American Statesman. Other traditions include Cultural Arts day and Science Day - which typically alternate each year - Track and Field Days, Dr. Seuss character parade, Family Fun nights, Math nights, 5th grade Monster Mash, along with many others throughout the academic year.

Mills PTA sponsors events throughout the year that incorporate the faculty, staff and students, including an annual Spring Festival, the well-attended community event Holidays Around the World, the Mills' Amazing Race, and a variety of other events intended to provide academic and cultural enrichment to the students, teachers and staff.

External links

• http://www.millspta.org
• http://www.austinisd.org/schools/docs/tours/227901181/index.html