Why Choose Walker?

Lulu Walker Elementary School

1750 West Roller Coaster Road

Tucson, Arizona 85704

Choose Walker because the teachers and staff are truly dedicated to each and every child. 
Choose Walker because our staff has tremendous experience and longevity at this site. 
Choose Walker because we are committed to educational excellence.
Choose Walker because we are the top science school in all of Southern Arizona.
Choose Walker because our arts program is tremendous.
Choose Walker because we are a leader in the Ben's Bells Be Kind program. 
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Choose Walker because we are truly dedicated: Walker School is one big family and we dedicate ourselves to every child for life!  We're not saying that our students *have* to go to the University of Arizona, but we might try to influence them just a little.  :)

Choose Walker because we have experience: The majority of our staff has been teaching together for quite a long time now!  That's a lot of experience and teamwork right there, and we do pretty much everything together.  This photo is from one of our Book Character Days where the students and staff dress up as their favorite story book characters. 

Choose Walker because we are dedicated to educational excellence:  In 2013, former principal, Mr. Michael McConnell, led Lulu Walker Elementary School in celebrating 50 years of excellence. Mrs. Evelyn Carswell-Bing. Walker's first principal in 1963, demonstrated her lifetime commitment to educational excellence by joining us for our ceremony! 

Choose Walker because we are the #1 Science School:  What's that?  We're the TOP SCIENCE SCHOOL in all of Southern Arizona? That's right!  We won even more trophies than this, but we couldn't manage to wrangle everyone together for the photo after the huge Southern Arizona ceremony at the Tucson Convention Center.  A big shout-out to Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cordell for their leadership in science!  We love science!

Choose Walker because our arts program is amazing:  Our arts program has a wide variety of fantastic productions! Band, Orchestra, Chorus, Talent Show, Artist's Studio, 4th Grade Pit Fire, history shows, just to name a few!  In 2013, we even did a teachers' production of The Grinch! We teachers had a blast and the students loved it!

Choose Walker because we are a kind school:  We focus a lot on acts of kindness throughout the school day, at home, and in the community! The kindergartners sang ~and signed~ a song about kindness for one of our kindness rallies. Tucson's Mayor Rothschild came to Walker to congratulate us that day on our leadership in the hugely successful Tucson Be Kind Challenge.

This is our beautiful Be Kind mural, but it's the kindness in the words and actions of our children and staff that really stand out. 

 In the end, of course, it's all about the kids and their joy of learning. 

Walker's kind kids melt our hearts!

We Choose Walker! 

Walker teachers and staff deliberately chose to work at Walker - and we were deliberately chosen to be here!  We have tons of people apply to work at Walker, so we get to choose the best of the best!  We form an amazing community of caring, hardworking, professional educators.  We're passionate about the education and well-being of each and every one of our students. We are a family.

Lulu Walker Elementary School is the best!