Mission Statement

  Our mission and vision statements reflect our school-wide focus:  Avalon's motto is "Falcons on a quest for knowledge to attend college".  We provide a nurturing and challenging learning environment that allows all students to achieve their academic personal best.  Through a partnership among administrators, staff, parents, students, and the community we provide students with the tools to meet high academic expectations by consistently teaching the state standards.  We are dedicated to helping students develop positive character traits, higher order thinking skills, and civic responsibility.

Vision Statement

Falcons On a Quest for Knowledge to Attend College

School Profile

  Avalon Elementary School is nestled in the valley surrounded by the mountains and Lake Perris.  We are one of twenty schools in the Val Verde Unified School District.  Operating on a traditional school calendar, Avalon Elementary School serves over 750 students grades kindergarten through fifth.  Avalon Elementary School opened its doors in 2005 and rolled out the red carpet to a group of eager and excited students and their parents.


School Programs and Practices that Promote

a Positive Learning Environment


Our principal, Dr. Marilyn Lezine, leads a highly qualified and professional staff in offering an educational program designed to meet the needs of all students.  Rigorous academics and a warm, positive environment ensure students are given the best opportunity to learn and achieve.  All school components, including curriculum, instruction, and assessment, staff development and training, leadership opportunities, parent involvement, school climate, and extracurricular activities contribute to an environment where there is a focus on student achievement.  We utilize a number of approaches to address student needs:

  • Vocabulary enrichment for all curricular areas
  • Higher-order thinking skills
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Learning Styles 


  Student achievement is accelerated through a commitment to direct instruction, based on the state's Content Standards and effective instructional practices and strategies.  Content standards define what all students should know and be able to do throughout their educational experience.  Teachers post their daily objectives on the board and involve all students in learning through active participation techniques.  Avalon students have far exceeded the state's expectations on the STAR Assessment as measured by the California Academic Performance Index (API), as well as the federal government's expectations by their Annual Yearly Progress (AYP). 

  Students have the opportunity to earn Principal's Honor Roll or Falcon Honor Roll at academic wards ceremonies held at the end of each trimester.  Please look for proud parents displaying the bumper stickers.  Avalon teachers have received training in planning lessons which address content standards.  Students are assessed through daily work assignments, district assessment, and grade level tests to assure they are making steady progress toward mastery.


College Bound Program

All Avalon students are focused on going to college.  Avalon encourages the development of college and professional career goals.  Our continued growth as a professional learning community is committed to academic excellence that is shared by our students, staff, and parents.  Every child has the potential to achieve academic success and as a team administrators, parents, teachers, and support providers possess the keys necessary to unlock that success.

 Avalon has created comprehensive ways to promote college readiness for all students beginning at kindergarten.  We need every student, parent, and staff member to embrace and support this endeavor.  From kindergarten to college students must be engaged in meaningful learning.  Avalon students know their graduation date from college.  This date is four years after their high school date.  The date is on every student's school shirt.

 Opportunities for Parental Involvement

  Avalon parents, staff, and students foster school-wide participation and pride through a regular schedule of special events including:  Family Math Night, Family Reading Night, Multicultural and Diversity Week, Fall and Spring Book Fair, Read Across America Week, Family Valentine Dance, Winter Dance, Muffins with Mom's Donuts with Dad, Renaissance Fair, G.A.T.E. Family Movie Night, Silent Auction, Cookies and Chat with the Principal, Science Fair, Spelling Bee, Geography Bee, Avalon Idol Talent Show, Constitution Day, Spirit Wednesdays, Black History Family Night, March of Dimes Student Walk, Bunny Hop, Perfect Attendance with the Principal, Falcon of the Month Awards Assemblies, Volunteer and Sports Banquet, English As a Second Language Class (ESL), Mother's Tea, 5th Grade Promotion Celebration, Student/Staff/Parent Softball Game, Superintendent's Monthly Awards Program, Winter Wonderland Family Dance, Technology Training for Parents, Career / College Awareness Week

 Enrichment Activities

  • Falcon Reading Club
  • Chess Club
  • Choir
  • Band
  • Visual and performing Arts
  • Mad Science
  • PTO Sponsored Field Trips

Community Business Partnerships

  • Staples 
  • Moreno Valley Bowling Center
  • Long's Drug Store
  • Juice It Up
  • Parent Teacher Organization (PTO)
  • English Language Advisory Council (ELAC)
  • School Site Council (SSC)
  • Gate Parent Advisory Council
  • Pizza Hut Reading Program
  • Old Chicago Pizza
  • Farmer Boys
  • Sizzler
  • Shakey' s Pizza

Much of the collaboration is linked to academics.  Our students, for example, have participated in a Red Ribbon Week poster contest.  Incentives provided by business partners include books, notebooks, computers, printers, school supplies, gifts certificates, brief cases, camera, flash lights, DVD Players, DVD/ CD Writer, and fax machines.

 Technology

Avalon is preparing students to be a part of the 21st century by utilizing cutting edge technology to enrich and reinforce standardized lessons while engaging students.  We believe in using technology to support standards-based curriculum.  Through technology our students are on a voyage of self-discovery.  Technology provides the building blocks to strengthen basic skills, including writing, reading, comprehension, articulation of ideas, research and problem solving. Avalon has acquired a myriad of technological resources which are used on a daily basis in classrooms by teachers, students, and parents.

  • Interwrite Pads
  • Hand Held Assessment Systems
  • Unitedstreaming
  • Computerized Grade Book
  • Auto Dialer Parent Communication
  • Nettrekker
  •   Quartermile Math
  •   Document Cameras
  •   LCD projectors in every classroom
  • Professional Development for teachers and parents