Today, students participate in the basics - reading, writing, and math - plus science, social studies, music, physical education, technology and environmental studies.  In 1995 the students and staff developed a nature center along Pigeon Creek, which borders the school grounds. The students and staff later discovered that the school sits on land that was owned by Henry A. Terry, who came to the area in 1846 as a schoolmaster and then opened a nursery experimenting with plums and other fruits and flowers.  His research earned him state recognition and the title  "the wizard of the plums."  He also developed many varieties of peonies.  Today flowers and trees are nurtured and grown by students, staff, and community members where this schoolmaster once experimented.
 

    During the 1997-98 school year the students, staff, parents and community raised funds for new playground equipment.  The task was monumental but completed for the benefit of the children of the community and school.

Information from Recipes from the Flock:
A collection of recipes by the students, staff, parents
and friends of Crescent Elementary School