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Our
Mission: ·
In partnership with families
and the larger community, we will model behaviors that foster a love of
learning and respect for self and others. Our
Vision: ·
To create lifelong
learners instilled with positive self-images and the desire to become responsible
and contributing citizens. Our
Community: Highland
Park serves a very ethnically diverse population with Hispanic and Asian
students being the highest numbers.
Many students receive special services. Special Education is offered to students with identified
disabilities, and bilingual services are offered to students who have limited
fluency in English. Approximately 75%
of our students receive either free or reduced lunch. Our
Programs and Services: Academic Programs… ·
90-minute reading
block implementing scientifically based, reading researched programs support
by our Reading First grant ·
National Science
Foundation inquiry-based science curriculum for all students, K-5 ·
Visual, hands-on
math instruction for all students using “TERC Investigations” ·
Environmental
studies partnership with Audubon Society for Grade 4 ·
ESL (English as a
Second Language) program ·
Special Education (Resource
Room) -also K-2 Emotional Behavior Disorder classroom ·
School-wide Title I ·
3 full-day
kindergartens (8:50-3:00) ·
Before school
tutoring for reading ·
Before school P.E.
enrichment program (Circus Arts) ·
Multi-Arts program (Drama,
Art & Music) ·
After School Clubs
to reinforce specific interests ·
Computer Lab ·
Learning Resource
Center (library) with over 17,000 books ·
Instrumental Music
for grades 4 & 5 Special Services… ·
Student Intervention
Team (SIT) that supports staff on issues of student academic and/or
behavioral progress and includes… 1.
half-time nurse 2.
half-time counselor 3.
psychologist (part
time) 4.
speech therapist
(part time) 5.
occupational
therapist (part time) 6.
full-time Family
Support Worker ·
Low class sizes ·
Counseling services
– both school & community available ·
On-site
before-and-after daycare ·
Active adult
volunteer program supervised by Parent-Volunteer Coordinator ·
Computers in every
classroom in addition to those in computer lab ·
Full-size,
well-equipped gym ·
Fully equipped
kitchen where all meals are prepared on-site ·
Greenhouse ·
Large asphalt
playground attached to grass playfield of city park ·
COMPETENT,
WELL-TRAINED, CONSCIENTIOUS TEACHING STAFF AND SUPPORT STAFF! Read about Highland Park’s history
from the time it opened as a one-room portable in 1913 to the present. |
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