Belview Elementary School is located in Montgomery County on Route 114, a main rural thoroughfare that connects the nearby towns of Christiansburg and the City of Radford. Institutes of higher learning in the area are New River Community College, Radford University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Students attending Belview come from a variety of educational and economic backgrounds. Their parents work in the nearby Radford Army Ammunition Plant, in privately owned factories and businesses, in higher education and some are self-employed.
There is strong parent support for this school. A classroom volunteer program, fund-raising efforts, thoughtful social expressions, and many other forms of support are provided through an active parent group. Both school and community work cooperatively to provide an appropriate educational opportunity for all the students.
In the Belview Elementary School community we expect to learn and learn to expect the best from ourselves and others.
Our community of learners - administration, faculty, staff, parents, students and community - strives to promote intellectual, academic, aesthetic, social, physical and ethical development of each student by:
- Helping to develop a positive self-concept within each student,
- Providing a safe, comfortable, and friendly atmosphere that is conducive to learning,
- Encouraging logical thinking, creativity, and decision making by the student,
- Promoting mastery of basic skills in all subject areas,
- Providing learning experiences that meet the individual needs of the student,
- Helping to develop character by emphasizing honesty, courage, respect, compassion and responsibility within our teaching and learning,
- Encouraging professional and personal growth of the staff that will enhance teaching capabilities,
- Supplementing academic and social activities in school by using community resources and parent volunteers,
- Holding an expectation that families will be actively involved in children’s education.