Bayou View Elementary School is a National Blue Ribbon School located in Gulfport, MS, and serves approximately 620 students in grades K-5. We are a Mississippi "Star School", ranked as MS's highest-performing elementary school (based on 2011 standardized state assessment data), with a QDI (Quality Distribution Index Rating) of 238. Our curriculum is based upon the Common Core State Standards, a national initiative adopted by the Gulfport School District for 2011-2012, in all grades (K-12). Our staff is committed to rigor, relevance, and relationships...we accept each new student where they are academically, and take them where they need to be, and beyond. All of our students receive instruction in all the standard academic disciplines, as well as the extra-curricular disciplines of art, music, library sciences, and physical education. Fourth and fifth grade students may enroll in strings class, which is taught two days per week, and feeds into our district's internationally-acclaimed secondary orchestra program.