Bordeaux has Title 1 school-wide program to help support learning. Though funding varies from year to year, funds are used to support student achievement through the acquisition of staff, programs, and other services. Our Title 1 Coordinator provides additional instructional support to students in reading and math.

Bordeaux is a reconfigured school. It is an extended year program, meaning the school year is extended an additional four weeks during the summer to sustain and enhance the learning opportunities of our students. The assigned staff continues for the additional five weeks. Our school provides counseling, a gifted program, a computer lab and other services through the family resource center. We are the only extended-year school in the Whites Creek Cluster. The feeder patterns for students are, students in grades K-4 attend Bordeaux E.O. Elementary School; students in grades 5-8 attend Ewing Park Middle School; students in grades 9-12 attend Whites Creek High School.

The Higher Order Thinking Skills Program (HOTS) impacts every K-4 child. This program is taught weekly in 60 minutes sessions. The HOTS sessions are designed to identify potentially gifted students. Students that have already been identified as gifted and talented are taught weekly in three hour sessions.

Bordeaux uses the Gifted Child-Find Program (according to the guidelines of Tennessee Department of Education), which uses community resources as a means of identifying and locating children with suspected high intellectual potential and children whose needs are not being met through the child’s environmental opportunities.

A full-time resource teacher, as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), services special needs students. The Student Support Team (S-Team) process is used to identify our students with special needs. It is facilitated by our school’s guidance counselor. The goal of the S-Team is to pool the resources of faculty, staff, and others to provide intervention plans for struggling students, to make referrals for formal specialized evaluations, and to design and monitor the implementation of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).

In 2006-2007, the library collection includes some 9.487 volumes, totaling 28 volumes per student. The average publication date ranges from 6-10 years in our nonfiction, biography, and reference collection. The easy section has a range of 11-20 years. The library contains 3,690 linear feet of shelving space. It houses six networked computers with Grolier, TEL (Tennessee Electronic Library), and other programs. Hours of operation are 7:45-3:00 daily. On the average some 358 students check out approximately 612 books weekly. In 2003-2004, our school library received the Essential Literature Curriculum for each grade level. It is designed for all students to read, experience, and share literary works that explore the human condition.

Our Family Resource Director’s position is used to mobilize community resources to support children succeeding in school and increase parental involvement. The director is instrumental in securing tutors and mentors for our student population. In addition, some after school programs have included dance classes and other programs that enhance learning and showcase student talents and ambitions.

The Enhanced Option School calendar runs concurrent with the School System’s calendar and is extended through the summer for a period of four weeks for students. The purpose of the extended year is to help maintain skills achieved for at-risk students. The calendar for students is from August to June for the Enhanced Option School. Student hours are the same as all MNPS elementary schools (8:00 a. m - 3:00 p. m.).

Balanced literacy involves listening, speaking, reading, writing and word study. These are done daily at school, and often at home.  Listening and speaking skills are developed as students work with their teachers and with each other. Students learn to ask questions that relate to the lesson. They begin speaking in clear and complete sentences and they learn to share information. The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Balanced Literacy Program includes read aloud, shared reading, guided reading and independent reading.